Andrew Chatterton

So it might be an airfield which the Germans had taken over or a local country house which the Germans had taken as their HQ.

Or it might be ammo and fuel dunks that the Germans have or places where convoys have parked up or railway bridges or railway tracks.

but also German officers and British collaborators.

So obviously this is all about slowing down the German advance.

So in France and Holland and Belgium,

The Germans just sped through, and the spearhead would fly on, and the supply chain would be right behind them, just providing with the stuff all the time.

So this is about stopping that supply chain feeding the spearhead.

So you'd let the Germans almost literally go over the top of you, and then come out and do anything that would slow down that advance.

All this stuff is... Yeah, and it's all pre-thought.

So this is, you know, obviously we weren't invaded, so this is all prepared.

So once the Germans were in their area and they were in their base, there's no outside contact at all.

No orders coming in.

So they were completely trusted to find their own targets.

So they'd go out at night, blow up the stuff that was predetermined, and then on the way back, they'd look for other targets.

Exactly.

What are the key things around here as we're coming back?

Okay.

There's an arm fuel dump there.

We need to blow that up tomorrow.

There was, because they had such a short window, they, they had to go out every single night, which is huge amounts of pressure.