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Andrew Chatterton

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Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So they couldn't give away... Basically, it's a suicide mission.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They've got two weeks is their life expectancy.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So they've got two weeks to be effective in holding up the German invasion.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So anything that shortens that amount... And again, we'll go into this later, but anything that shortens that amount of time is they have to stop.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So telling their wives is a really good way of...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

lessening that time because under torture she's going to tell the germans well actually he's doing this and this is where their secret underground bunker is so they didn't tell him anything so got the hatch in various ways and then going down is a shaft probably about six foot sorry andrew how many of these bunkers still exist the ones you're about to explain uh in various states

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Not many have been completely destroyed.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So in various... Most have collapsed in some order.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So it's really difficult to say.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I would say somewhere around 400, something like that, would probably exist in some form or another.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yes.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Wow.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

There's one in Newton-Bobbitt.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

No, they're almost all on private land.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So you have to get permission to go there.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

There's some that are associated with another group, which is the toilet bunker, which again we'll talk about later, which is unbelievable.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But yeah, there's loads and tacks or in various states of tackness.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So you open the little doodle.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Hatch is open.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

There's a shaft going down.