He's back! Sir Tony Robinson returns to Time Team to investigate the US 101st Airborne Division in Britain. Time Team have been invited to Aldbourne, Wiltshire, by Operation Nightingale, on the 80th anniversary since Easy Company were stationed here in 1943, shortly before D-Day.
Working alongside service men and women from the US and UK, the team have just over a week to investigate the camp, once home to the iconic 'Band of Brothers'...
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Official photography by Harvey Mills
Back in 2018, I went on the 2-week Band of Brothers Tour put on by Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours, started in Atlanta and bus trip to Toccoa, Ga and then overnight to London, spending the day in Aldbourne, Ferry trip to Caen across the English Channel, winding our way thru Holland, Bastogne, Berchtesgaden and the Eagles Nest, and Zell Am Zee Austria, finishing in Munich to fly home.
A couple of places listed we visited, Littlecote House was where the 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne had their HQ setup before D-Day.
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Ha! I just watched this a few days ago. I enjoyed the whole Time Team series and this was an interesting program as well highlighting the town where the 101st Airborne was billeted for about a year prior to D-Day.
I am so glad you posted this. I watched it the other night.
Aha! I see that Tony has another cunning plan
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