Andrew Chatterton
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There's little metal pegs in the corner of the shaft which you climb down.
Then there's usually like a blast wall.
So if the Germans had found it and dropped a grenade down the shaft, that would protect you from the blast.
So you'd kind of inch around it.
A blast wall is like, so there's a wall kind of almost overlapping each other.
So you go down the shaft, you kind of go sharp left and then sharp right and then sharp left.
So it goes into the walls rather than straight into that.
Exactly, Jake.
I guessed that.
so then you're into the main chamber where the bunks are so you'd sleep during the day and there'd be a table there's obviously no electricity down there so you'd be on like tilly lamps or candles
then as a different, into the next very small chamber where there's usually like a chemical toilet and there'd be, sometimes there's some form of kitchen, but obviously cooking isn't ideal because it attracts German patrols.
So they'd funnel the chimney up a hollow tree and then the smoke would disperse at the top of the tree line.
So there's no evidence that they're cooking.
It is bonkers.
Yeah, it's absolutely bonkers.
And it's also, if you're going out, so I'll describe the...
Their role is they go to this underground bunker, then at night they would come up and they would have a number of predetermined targets.