In May 1940, 24-year-old pilot Paul Klipsch took off in his Mark 1 Spitfire on his first day of combat over France and never came back. Sixty years later, the Time Team joins air crash investigators and WW2 historians in Northern France to locate and excavate the wreck of aircraft P9373. Cameras follow the dig as it works down through farmland to the buried Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, twisted airframe fragments, and the pilot's personal effects, each find handled and discussed on camera by the specialists uncovering it. Historians place the crash inside the wider collapse of the Battle of France, explaining how outmatched RAF squadrons were thrown into a losing campaign against a faster-moving German advance. The excavation is procedural and unhurried, showing the actual archaeology rather than dramatizing it, and the personal items recovered from the crater turn the technical story of engine parts and squadron records into an account of one specific young man's last flight.