Southern England

Postponed due to COVID-19, 2021 date TBA

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Project

(History Central)

The DPAA works to account for MIA service members, in this case, several soldiers lost in a B-24 Liberator (pictured above) crash during WWII.

This will be AVAR’s second dig at the site.

Saratoga National Historic Park

8-25 September, 2020

1777 Revolutionary War Battlefield

Last year AVAR veterans conducted the first archaeological fieldwork ever attempted on the site of the Second Battle of Saratoga, turning point of the American Revolution, with supervision and training provided by archaeologists from the Northeast Region Archeology Program. This year our vets will continue the methodical metal detector survey under the guidance of Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist (AMDA), but we also aim to excavate!

You can read more about our 2019 results in the below article by the American Battle Field Trust:

Cataloguing & Analysis: Findings from the AVAR Saratoga Project

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March 29, 2020May 31, 2020

P-38G Recovery

Sicily, Italy

Postponed due to COVID-19, 2021 date TBA

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Project

(Pima Air & Space Museum)

The DPAA works to account for MIA service members, in this case, the AVAR team will work to account for a fighter pilot who went MIA in a Lockheed P-38G Lightening (pictured above) crash.