Operation Crossbow Site


  • Address: Range Rd 200
  • Vicinity: Range Rd 201
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Site

The Operation Crossbow Site is a World War II military testing facility located at Eglin Air Force Base near Niceville, Florida. The US Army Air Corps built a copy of a German V-1 flying bomb launch facility to be a target while testing bombing strategies to be used to destroy actual Nazi V-1 launch sites located along the Dutch and French coast. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
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
1944/02/15 Gen Hap Arnold, Chief of the United States Army Air Forces, observes an Operation CROSSBOW test at Eglin Field. Operation Crossbow

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Particulars for Operation Crossbow Site:
Historic Use Air facility
Criteria Exemplar
Owner Federal
Area of Significance Military
Sight Category Site
Motif War
Historic Event World War II



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 22nd October 1998

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Operation Crossbow Site
Registry Address: Address Restricted
Registry Number: 98001256
Resource Type: Site
Owner: Federal
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 14
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 9
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Military
Applicable Criteria: Event
Significant Year: 1944
Historic Function: Defense
Historic Sub-Function: Air facility
Current Function: Vacant, not in use
Current Sub-Function:

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