Corner of a foreign field

We’re still finding live 50-calibre bullets, aluminium and shards of plexiglass from this crashed Flying Fortress. Eight American airmen died in this Cotswold field during Christmas 1944. 

We’ll meet the heroic woman who tried to save them and see the location of royal events, too controversial, even for Netflix’s The Crown. 

Vladimir Putin awarded the Soviet Order of Friendship for what happened here - recognition for a crime that heated up the Cold War to boiling point.