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How some bra-wearing pigeons saved thousands of lives during WWII (Getty Images) Not even Alfred Hitchcock could have concocted the avian idea — carrier pigeons in bras. Or, at the very least, carrier pigeons in vests made by a brassiere company. In December 1944, undergarment manufacturer Maidenform ditched peddling their usual wares in favor of a government contract to make 28,500 pigeon vests, according to the National Museum of American History. The vests themselves could be attached to American paratroopers and were made out “of porous materials, with a tighter woven fabric und...