One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France
Episode 3 · 2000-01-16
- Documentary
- Mystery
Episode overview
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.
50 minutes
Season 7 episodes
1. A Muslim Port In Spain - Denia, Spain2000-01-02
2. The Mosaic at the Bottom of the Garden - Cirencester, Gloucestershire2000-01-09
3. One of the First Spitfires Lost in France - Wierre-Effroy, France2000-01-16
4. An Iron-Age Roundhouse and a Henge - Waddon, Dorset2000-01-23
5. Hadrian's Wall - Birdoswald, Cumbria2000-01-30
6. In Search of the Earliest Traces of Mankind - Elveden, Suffolk2000-02-06
7. The Missing Cathedral and the Diabetic Prior - Coventry, West Midlands2000-02-13
8. The Royalists' Last Stand - Basing House, Hampshire2000-02-20
9. A Bronze-Age Barrow and Walkway - Flag Fenn, Cambridgeshire2000-02-27
10. In Search of the Palace of King Offa - Sutton, Hereford2000-03-05
11. A Roman Temple in Sight of the Millennium Dome - Greenwich Park, London2000-03-12
12. Nuns in Northumbria - Hartlepool, County Durham2000-03-19
13. The Roman Fortress of Eboracum - York, Yorkshire2000-03-26
