Digging Band of Brothers - BBC4 11-12-2019

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On Wednesday 11th December the BBC4 programme Digging For Britain is having a WW2 Special where their dig relates to Band of Brothers. Programme is on at 2100 and on the iPlayer afterwards.

[chrischa]

Thanks mate! I’d have missed that.

[Lutfen]

Thanks - it’s an excellent series and this focus will be a real bonus!

Cheers,
Michael

[IanC]

thanks mate! I’d have missed that.

+1

[sniper11]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Troy

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Programme details:

The team are on an archaeological hunt of our more recent past as they follow the search for artefacts from World War II. They join marine archaeologists in the Solent as they raise the once-in-a-lifetime find of a Fairey Barracuda dive bomber. More than 2500 Barracudas were in service during the war, but not a single complete plane survives today. Naoíse Mac Sweeney joins the post-excavation to reveal how the find could help bring this rare aircraft back to life.

Also featured, a dig in the Lake District that tells the moving story of the Windermere Boys and the role the area played in rehabilitating these children liberated from the Nazi concentration camps after World War II.

In Aldbourne, Wiltshire, the search is on for the most famous American unit of the US army, 'Easy Company', whose paratroopers were stationed there in 1943 and 1944. Archaeologists are particularly looking for any personal items of this renowned regiment to gain insight into the lives of its soldiers in the months and days leading up to the D-Day invasion.

And off a beautiful beach in Devon, divers plumb the depths to discover more about a secret wartime military exercise that may have remained buried from view if it hadn't been for the curiosity of a local amateur archaeologist.