Time Team · SEASON 6

Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk

Episode 8 · 1999-02-21

★ N/A
← Previous episode All seasons Next episode →
Time Team poster
Season 6Episode 8★ N/A/10
  • Documentary
  • Mystery

Episode overview

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.

50 minutes

Season 6 episodes

1. Wedgwood's First Factory - Burslem, Stoke-On-Trent1999-01-03 2. Back Garden Roman Finds - Papcastle, Cumbria1999-01-10 3. Dominican Friary Church and Norman Cathedral - Thetford, Norfolk1999-01-17 4. Cooper's Hole - Cheddar Gorge, Somerset1999-01-24 5. Medieval Plympton - Plympton, Devon1999-01-31 6. Tudor Dockyard - Smallhythe, Kent1999-02-07 7. Golf Course Roman Bathhouse - Beauport Park, Sussex1999-02-14 8. Bombers In Reedham Marshes - Reedham, Norfolk1999-02-21 9. Back To Turkdean - Turkdean, Gloucestershire1999-02-28 10. Field Cropmarks - Kemerton, Worcestershire1999-03-07 11. Ruined Norman Church - Bawsey, Norfolk1999-03-14 12. Montravers Estate (Part 1) - Nevis, West Indies1999-03-21 13. Montravers Estate (Part 2) - Nevis, West Indies1999-03-28