Operation Crossbow - Defeating Germany's Unstoppable Hidden Secret Weapons

On the morning of 8 September 1944, Germany introduced a new secret weapon to its already deadly WW2 arsenal. It came out of nowhere and caused a massive explosion in Paris. There was nothing to compare it to.

The weapon was part of Germany's Wunderwaffe, its miracle weapons program, created in a last-ditch effort to shift the war's balance in the Third Reich's favor.

The V2 rocket, nicknamed the Retribution Weapon 2, was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. No defensive systems of the time could do anything to counter the weapon, and V2s rarely failed to reach their targets. They were extremely fast, powerful, and precise.

The Allied forces, desperate to find an effective way to counter the V2's sheer effectiveness, realized that there was only one way to avoid further destruction. The solution was destroying the secret German military bases where they were assembled.

Operation Crossbow's objective was simple. Find the enemy bases where the V2s were located and blow them to smithereens. But things weren't going to be that easy.

The Allies soon realized that there were not two, or four, or 10 research facilities, but more than 50 scattered all over Europe. A race against time was undertaken to destroy them all before the bombs could disrupt American supply lines in France.

Everything seemed lost to the Allies until an innovative method created by the British Intelligence seemed to offer hope. Cutting-edge 3D photography would reveal where the V2 launch sites were hidden...

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