Andrew Chatterton

Then you realize he's not at home.

Therefore, he's got to be somewhere else.

Yeah, quickly.

If you look at mainland Europe...

It was a bit different in the West.

I mean, in the East, they were utterly, they would just burn down a village if they fancied it and kill everyone in it.

In the West, it was slightly different.

But yeah, if they thought it would get them a result, they would have no worries about taking a selection of the population and putting them up against a wall when shooting them and keeping that going until they got the information they needed.

And that's another thing you have to think about from an auxiliary unit perspective, particularly.

is that you are committing these acts of what the germans would see terror as terrorism and and you would also see and understand that that was going to have a direct impact on your family and friends well i was going to say if you're missing your your if you're not there you're going to be highlighting your family

Yeah, I mean, he was very young, so he saw it more as an adventure, but certainly to other veterans that we've spoken to who have now sadly passed on.

I always say that they saw the bigger picture.

So they understood the French resistance and the Polish and Belgians and Dutch resistance always had the hope that Britain was free and it could be a jumping board for liberation.

We were here, it was free.

Therefore, you've got hope that you're going to be liberated at some point soon because everything else around you is taken by the Germans, right?

If Britain falls at this point in 1940, the US isn't even in the war.

There's no hope of liberation.

It's the end of Western democracy.

It's the end of Western civilization, essentially, because there's nothing coming from the US.

Canada and Australia and the empire would have fought on, but there's just not enough to liberate us.