Member of Operation Crossbow taking notes in a bomb crater

memberofoperationcrossbowtakingnotesinabombcrater.jpg

This GI wears a shoulder patch that is a blue square around a white triangle marking him as an civilian under contract with the War Department. Probably he is a member of Operation Crossbow, examining German V1's and their associated infrastructure.

He is what is probably a bomb crater next to a railway line, near the V1 supply and assembly center near Valognes.