Andy Saunders

Who is Andy Saunders?

Andy Saunders is an English author and researcher from East Sussex who specializes in military aviation history with particular emphasis on the Battle of Britain and the air war over north-west Europe between 1939 and 1945.

He regularly contributes to the world’s aviation press on military history topics and is a regular contributor and consultant to the military history magazine “Britain at War”. He regularly writes for the magazines “FlyPast” and “Aeroplane Monthly” and has also written for national newspapers, including “The Mail on Sunday”.

He is a programme consultant for the Discovery History series “War Digs With Harry Harris” and is currently involved in a number of projected television documentaries for various production companies working as contributor, researcher or consultant.

In 2001, he was prosecuted at Hove Crown Court for illegal excavation of a Hawker Tempest crash site and the unauthorised removal of human remains and personal possessions from the crash site. He pled guilty to the removal of human remains and personal possessions from the site.