Time Team has carried out four excavations at 20th-century sites, all of them dating from the second world war. These include the sites of three aircraft crashes: Reedham Marshes, in Norfolk; Warton Marsh, near Preston, Lancashire; and Wierre-Effroy, in northern France, where one of the first Spitfires to be shot down during the war was excavated.

Time Team also ventured into the archaeology of the second world war as part of the 60th-anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings. This took the team to Normandy to recreate the 'longest day' of the 1st Dorset Regiment, which landed on Gold Beach at 7.45am on 6 June 1944.

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