21 Season
239 Episode
Time Team - Season 6 Episode 8 Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk
Time Team team up with air crash investigators to discover what happened to two B-17 bombers which crashed with loss of all lives on board on 21 February 1944 into marshes near Reedham, Norfolk. The airplanes were returning from a bombing raid on a German target as part of the Big Week offensive. Parts of one airplane are recovered, and the Team speak to surviving crew members of a third plane that was in the formation. Experimental archaeology: A piece of nose art painted as a memorial to the bomber crews, painted by a former Red Cross volunteer who had painted some during WWII.
- Year: 2024
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary, Mystery
- Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
- Keyword: investigation, educational, british history, archeological dig, archeology
- Director: Tim Taylor
- Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake