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A year on from Time Team's 'Digging Band of Brothers' Special, Matt Williams returns to Aldbourne in Wiltshire, to join Operation Nightingale for another season in the trenches.

Veterans and serving personnel from the US and UK are investigating the UK home of the US 101st Airborne Division, during World War II, in the 80th anniversary year of D-Day.

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COMING SOON | Digging Band of Brothers 2024: Time Team Revisits Aldbourne

New episode to be released 12th October 7pm BST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Ykz_bNofU A year on from Time Team's 'Digging Band of Brothers' Special, archaeologist Matt Williams returns to Aldbourne in Wiltshire, to join Operation Nightingale for another season in the trenches. Veterans and serving personnel from the US and UK are investigating the UK home of the US 101st Airborne Division, during World War II, in the 80th anniversary year of D-Day. Catch up on the original special, featuring Sir Tony Robinson, here: https://youtu.be/f_RRt6B-dxY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to: Time Team's Patreon Supporters Aldbourne Village Andrew Smith Bangor Public Library Local Studies (Swindon Library and Information Services) Kennet Valley at War Trustees DEFRA Mark Brothers Robert and Pat Hemingway Hall John Reeder Alex Schultz Neil Stevens The Family of David Kenyon Webster Special thanks to Richard Osgood MBE, all at Operation Nightingale, and all crew, volunteers, people and services who helped to make this episode possible. Official photography by Harvey Mills ** NEW 15,000 MEMBER TARGET - JOIN TIME TEAM ON PATREON! ** Help us reach our new goal of 15,000 active members on Patreon, to continue developing more sites and create more new episodes. Support Time Team by becoming a patron and get access to exclusive behind-the-scenes content here: https://www.patreon.com/TimeTeamOfficial ** NEW PODCAST ** Listen now to the brand new Time Team Podcast presented by Helen Geake and Martyn Williams: https://podfollow.com/time-team ** MERCHANDISE ** You can now purchase Time Team's Official merchandise here: https://shop.timeteamdigital.com/ Website: https://www.timeteamdigital.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/timeteamofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timeteamofficial Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetimeteam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialtimeteam

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Kerry Hennigan

Looking forward to seeing this. 👌

John Dickson

Therapeutic and bloody interesting modern era archaeology. CHeers from NZ

John Dickson

Subtitle the veteran please. We need his words.

TimeTeamOfficial

Hi, you can turn on the subtitles in YouTube by clicking on 'CC' icon in the bottom right of the window. We've subtitled Cecil's account. Thanks

Eggs Ackley

Apparently the airfield where they trained is an extensive archaeological “minefield”, at least for the metal detectorists. This site will likely offer years of discovery opportunities.