Address Restricted, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. County/parish: Okaloosa.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 22, 1998. NRIS 98001256.
1 contributing site. 9 contributing structures.
The Operation Crossbow Site is a historic location at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. During World War II, a reconstruction of a German V-1 flying bomb launch site was built to test the measures needed to destroy the actual bases in France.
In January 1944, General Grandison Gardner orders read, "Reproduction of the ski sites in complete detail and destruction in various ways." He determined low-level bombing with the heaviest bombs achieved the greatest accuracy.
On October 22, 1998, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.
The Site was built in a hurry, "working around the clock for 13 days" in 1944 on a "remote part of the Eglin reservation".
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