Operation Crossbow - Named Activities

Named Activities

  • Bodyline Joint Staff Committee
  • Diver - a secret British Defence Instruction specified the code name: "Enemy Flying Bombs will be referred to or known as 'Diver' aircraft or pilotless planes" to alert defences of an imminent attack (often called Operation Diver, particularly post-war, without citation).
  • Flying Bomb Counter Measures Committee (Duncan Sandys, chairman)
  • Fuel Panel of the Special Scientific Committee (Sir Frank Smith, chairman)
  • Questionnaire...to establish the practicability...of the German Long-Range Rocket (by Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell)
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1944 Crossbow Network (map)

USSBS Crossbow Exhibits

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