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🕑 Added 2023-04-16 19:42:05 +0000 UTCWe promised some more big announcements, so here's a first look at some very exciting news we'll be sharing with the public shortly.
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Time Team and Operation Nightingale Reunite for ‘Band of Brothers’ Dig
The excavation commemorates 80 years since the legendary Easy Company were stationed in Wiltshire, England ahead of D-Day.
Image credit: © Harvey Mills
Time Team is delighted to be working with Operation Nightingale on a UK site linked to the United States Army’s most famous regiment of the Second World War – the legendary Band of Brothers.
As the 80th anniversary of D-Day approaches, Time Team will drop in to a Wiltshire village, once home to the iconic Easy Company of the US 101st Airborne Division. The soldiers were stationed here in 1943, before engaging in pivotal actions of World War II – among them Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
The dig this May is being led by Operation Nightingale, a Ministry of Defence initiative that uses archaeology to support the recovery of servicemen and women returning from conflict. In 2012, Time Team joined the veterans at Figheldean, Wiltshire, coming face to face with ancient warriors.
Image credit: © Time Team
Time Team’s creator and Series Producer, Tim Taylor, says: “We’re thrilled to be joining forces again with our good friends, Richard Osgood and Operation Nightingale. I’ve always believed in archaeology’s qualities for promoting good wellbeing. I can’t wait to see what we discover together!”
Richard Osgood, MBE, says: “Operation Nightingale last worked with Time Team in our early years, in 2012, and it’s wonderful to be reunited. Back then it was a Saxon cemetery, but this time we can’t wait to work together on a site of huge 20th century importance, and to continue our efforts to assist military veterans with the power of archaeology!”
The dig takes place from 2nd to 9th May, with daily updates from Matt Williams as the action unfolds on Time Team’s Patreon channel. The full story will then be brought together in a Time Team Special documentary featuring Sir Tony Robinson, airing at a later date – full details to be announced across Time Team’s channels.
Image credit: © Harvey Mills
Comments
Brett
YES!! We must never forget our history, nor the horrors of war. I look forward to this very much.
Tarl Cabbot
Can we have a show on the development of the different technologies used in modern archaeology (say from series 1 geophysics to what you use today) and what might be used in the future?
Elaine P
Super excited! The dig with Operation Nightingale was one of my favorites. Just put of curiosity, is this going to be continuing work in the sight in Aldbourne that was written about in the March 8 issue of Current Archaeology? They made some surprising finds.
John Baltsersen
That's great news
J. Andrew Lockhart
Can’t wait!
Kris Scotting
Very excited!!
Jenna Tomlin
One of my favorite episodes. This is very exciting news!
Eggs Ackley
Next up…another special in conjunction with Waterloo Uncovered? 👍😃
Priscilla Logan
This is great, I watched the first dig. Being from Southern California it will be exciting to watch. Thanks
Kay Theriault
Oh, this promises to be an exciting event! I see Tony. Can we hope Phil might pop in for a surprise?
Paul Brekke
That's really exciting news! Massively looking forward to following the project, and having Sir Tony back to narrate a special sounds wonderful to me! Great work, Time Team!! :)
Min La Vida
so very glad that Tony is back on the team. Makes it all feel like one big happy family again.
gary hipkiss
Always look forward to the new teams digs and extra content. Disappointed about that Tony Robinson making an appearance, only reason I started watching new series was the fact he was not in it and we didn't have to watch him running around like an headless chicken with his negative comments. The new guy is way better and always shows enthusiasm and positivity.
Donna Oglesby
Awesome! I so enjoyed the last Time Team / Operation Nightingale Dig and have been looking forward to another partnership, which has not occured, til NOW! Such a shame that almost ALL of the Band of Brothers 101st and 105th men that served then and were there, are all gone home to God now. Not Many at all left anymore. The Greatest generation has moved on to Heaven. a Proud Supporter and Devoted fan from when I first stumbled on Time Team on youtube! Coming to you from Upper Northeast Illinois,USA!
Lynn Benfell
I'm in Rotorua Aotearoa New Zealand, but originally from London England. Left England at the age of 10 with my brother and parents. I am loving the digs and finding out lots about my homeland.
Barbara Guest
That original dig was one of my favorites! I’m in Portland, OR . And a devoted fan of TimeTeam. Keep digging!
Linda Morris-Stetson
Love that you’re back. I’m in SoCal and loved every episode since the beginning. Glad I’m able to help in a small way. Carry on……. 😀❤️
James D Speckart
This is great in many ways--reconnecting with Operation Nightingale, connecting to a WWII anniversary, and digging in a place with a lot of history. I hope it goes great, and I can't wait to see what happens.
Garret Olds
Fantastic news! We're in the 80th anniversary of a lot of WW2 events. Here's hoping you have the means, opportunity and desire to do some more WW2 archaeology.
Mary Madelaine Sutton
This is from an oral history we did with Dad before he passed away in 2006:While I was there they sent me up to Amesbury, England, to take over the control tower, and to work the American aircraft that had to use this English base, bringing in supplies and so forth. There weren’t very many, but they needed an American control tower operator. In this little control tower, this little airfield was at the edge of the Salisbury…. I guess you would call it a range. It was called the Salisbury plain and it was about a quarter mile away. …was the Stonehenge. And I’d look at that and wonder what it was, and went down one day and found out. They gave me a tour. While I was in this tower, the English used this range for a massive air drop of their paratroopers. You never saw so many guys jumping in all your life. They used the American C47, which was called the Dakota. I can remember one guy, his chute got tangled up under the bottom of the airplane, and he was just swinging underneath the airplane. And they circled around and around for a long time, I guess trying to figure out what they were going to do, and finally they just flew off….never did know what happened to him.
Mary Madelaine Sutton
Love to learn more about WW2 airfields in Wiltshire. My father was on a USAF team that was stationed down there. He manned a rickety wooden tower to direct the USAF traffic on a grass field (no runways, just a big field. He could look down and see Stonehenge from his vantage point. He even went to visit it one day just to find out what it was. Would love to find out exactlywhere he was stationed.
Ryan Cole
YES! I LOVE the Operation Nightingale episode! YES! YES! YES!
Jaya Bhat
So glad for all the extra digs and programs you are making! The two proper episodes a year are nowhere near enough! 😊😊
Terri Brown
How wonderful!
Christopher Samuel
Great news! Can't wait!
Susan M Durston
Excellent news. Very exciting. I'll be rewatching my Band of Brothers dvd in preparation for your dig.
Eggs Ackley
This old U.S. veteran is certainly gratified to hear this news. I know you will do justice to the sacrifice made by all who gave their lives during that worst of conflicts. The last member of the Band of Brothers, Bradford Freeman, died last July at age 97. 🫡
Bron Lloyd
Oh wow! I loved the segment on the work being done there on Digging For Britain too. This is really special.
Cheryl Kurucz
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Steve Mikre
Very exciting news indeed!
PHILIP MAY
Great news can't wait, with you there Keith 100%
Keith Goldacker
I’m hoping to see Phil return to a dig.
Peter Tricker
Hell Yeah Brother!!
Bruce Gordon
This will be a really interesting episode. I’m looking forward to it!
Richard Abbott
That is wonderful. I really am happy with the way you are utilising our money and making far more and VARIED content than I imagined possible.
Gloria Carbaugh
Got me all choked up! This is wonderful!
Jack Webster
This is Huge!!! What a wonderful thing this is!
Theresa Cashin
What a wonderful dig. And to all who served...it cannot be said too many times...THANK YOU for your service.
Rose Phoenix
Love it!
Charr Skirvin
Great news. I'm glad that the Time Team crew is finding new things to do and explore.
Melissa Rybb
This is wonderful news!
Don Cook
Just too awesome for words!!!
Lawrence Tate
A special event, for an American fan!
Steve Burgess
Great news!
James Leighninger
Outstanding!! And Sir Tony!!! A long, agonizing wait ahead!
Roger Dyrøy
Keep the good news coming!
Michael Taylor
Wow, this is amazing news! Thanks so much
Matthew Adams
What a fantastic opportunity.
Phelim McIntyre
As someone who has had the privilege, and there can be no other word for it, of working with the Operation Nightingale team I am both thrilled and jealous about this happening.
Mónica Courtial
What an excellent and worthy team up!
Elizabeth Neill
I'm so delighted that you're working with Operation Nightingale again! What a worthy endeavour. And, it's so very nice to have a U.S. theme, for Time Team's stateside patrons.
Adam Prickett
Can't wait!!
Daniel Wheeler
Awesome news.
Richard Vine
Supurb
Carole Cox
A truly wonderful project on many levels.
choklityum
How exciting! I look forward to seeing this, particularly as a U.S. citizen.
Jeffery Stout
There’s going to be tears in this one. This is going to be a historic dig.
