Operation Crossbow
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.
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