Time Team
Season 7 Episode 3 - One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France
On 23 May 1940 a Spitfire (P9373) flown by RAF pilot Paul Klipsch crashed into a field in Wierre-Effroy, France. Time Team, in concert with WWII aircraft historians and air crash investigator Steve Moss, try to find out what happened. They are joined by Klipsch's stepbrother, who last visited France on D-Day. Several residents of the village remember seeing the air battle and the crash, and Group Captain Allan Wright, who was flying in the same formation as Klipsch, comes along to help the investigation. The Spitfire wreckage is recovered, and investigation shows that Gunther Specht, flying a Messerschmitt Bf 110, shot down P9373. Experimental archaeology: Phil learns to repair a Spitfire wing flap with rudimentary tools.
Episodes in Season 7
A Muslim Port In Spain - Denia, Spain
50 min
The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire
50 min
One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France
50 min
An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset
50 min
Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria
50 min
In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk
50 min
The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands
50 min
The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire
50 min
A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire
50 min
In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton, Hereford
50 min
A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich Park, London
50 min
Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham
50 min
The Roman Fortress of Eboracum - York, Yorkshire
50 min
