Operation Crossbow

Crossbow was a World War II Anglo-American military operation to defeat Nazi German long V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets launched against Britain from continental Europe. - AsNotedIn



Locations

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1943/00/00 In early 1943, two Polish janitors at Peenemunde's Camp Trassenheide in Nazi Germany provide drawings and other information to Polish Home Army Intelligence.
1943/06/00 British intelligence obtain reports on a "rocket assembly hall", "experimental pit" and "launching tower" at Peenemunde's Camp Trassenheide in Nazi Germany. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
1944/01/00 United States Army Air Force Gen Grandison Gardner orders the rapid construction of copies of German V-1 flying bomb launch structures to determine the best method of attacking the real "buzz bomb" sites along the French and Dutch coast. Operation Crossbow Site, Eglin Air Force Base EOD Range
1944/02/15 Gen Hap Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Forces, observes an Operation CROSSBOW test at Eglin Field. Operation Crossbow Site, Eglin Air Force Base EOD Range
1944/06/13 The first German V-1 flying bomb hits next to the railway bridge near 77 Grove Road in Bow, London. Bow, Greater London

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Motif: War
Historic Event: World War II


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