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- Season 18 2011-02-06
- Season 19 2012-01-22
- Season 20 2012-11-11
- Season 21 2022-03-18
Season 21 Episode
- Season 12 The Manor That's Back to Front - Chenies Manor House, Buckinghamshire
- Season 12 The Monastery And The Mansion - Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire
- Season 12 The Bombers in the Marsh - Warton near Preston, Lancashire
- Season 12 Fighting On The Frontier - Drumlanrig, Dumfries and Galloway
- Season 12 A Neolithic Cathedral? - Northborough, Peterborough
- Season 12 In Search of Henry V's Flagship, Grace Dieu - Bursledon, Hampshire
- Season 12 Going Upmarket With The Romans - Standish, Gloucestershire
- Season 12 Picts And Hermits: Cave Dwellers Of Fife - Wemyss, Fife
- Season 12 Lost Centuries Of St Osyth - St Osyth, Essex
- Season 12 The Puzzle Of Picket's Farm - South Perrott, Dorset
- Season 12 Norman Neighbours - Skipsea, East Yorkshire
- Season 12 Tower Blocks And Togas - South Shields, Tyneside
- Season 12 Animal Farm - Hanslope, Milton Keynes
Time Team - Season 12 Episode 3 The Bombers in the Marsh - Warton near Preston, Lancashire
7.07 50 minutes On 29 November 1944, two US Douglas A-26 Invader bombers crashed in Warton Marsh. Both planes, along with a number of others, had left Warton Airbase in formation, en route to join forces in the preparations for the Battle of the Bulge. Only one minute off the runway and 1,000 feet into the air, the aircraft collided and came to rest in the marsh. All the crew died. Their bodies were recovered from the planes, but an investigation into the causes of the crash was inconclusive.
For this programme, Time Team enlisted a veteran air crash investigator, along with the RAF's 'crash and smash' team and other experts to try to find out what caused the crash. Each of the planes, including the engines, was believed to be relatively intact and, it was hoped, would provide the necessary information to determine why these two planes collided.
