There was BBC programme screened a while ago as part of the 'Meet the Ancestors' series. A team went to France to excavate the remains of (later Group Captain) Billy Drake's Hurricane I, shot down by a Bf-110 on 13th May 1940 having been bounced after shooting down a Do-17.

The excavation was fascinating and accompanied by Drake himself, the team recovered the engine, some the Hurricane's guns, reflector sight, the instrument panel and all sorts of odds and ends, including a piece of armour plating with a dent from a bullet strike just where Drake's head would have been.

The other great thing about the programme was to see the number of local villagers who remembered seeing Drake bail out and land, and watching the Mayor of the village throw a reception and give a speech in his honour.