New TV series: Dig WW2

[rreis]

Read it here:

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/07/ ... world-war/

[The Inspector]

Neat! Don't everyone get all sweaty about this unless you live IN the GWN. Recall that Ice Pilots was on Canadian HISTORY CHANNEL, then came to NAT GEO for about 1 1/2 seasons and now is reduced to 2 30 min repeated repeats that are repeated endlessly on The Weather Channel. I'm sort of fortunate that my cable system carries CBC out of YCVR.

[rreis]

That's why bit torrent was invented...

[SaxMan]

Is Dan Snow the same guy who did the series "Great Battles of the 20th Century" with his father? It was the typical, well done, BBC production.

[Jeff H]

Caught it last night when they were digging up the Spitfire from the Irish peat bog. Rolls Royce folks would be surprised to find that this particular Spit had a 5,000 hp Merlin according to the people who produced the show.

Cheers,

Jeff

[goshikisen]

The episode the other night dealt with the excavation of a Mk. XII Spitfire that had crashed in France in 1944. Incredible how deep it was buried and how compressed the airframe was. The Griffon was damaged in a way that could only be attributed to enemy fire. Very interesting episode.