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Andrew Chatterton

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Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And actually, that's a really interesting one because there was –

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

One guy we knew, we had his address and we couldn't place him in a patrol.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But actually, it turns out this bunker is almost right next to where his farm was.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And the same family still farmed there.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So I gave them a ring and they had no idea.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They had no idea what they thought.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They're just gobsmacked because they have absolutely no idea.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They thought quite often they'd say they're in a special bit of the Home Guard.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And that's all they would say.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They had no idea.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

actually that they're a hardly trained guerrilla fighter and stuff like that so so often and people get in touch when they hear about it they'll get in touch and they'll say granddad would talk about a bunker or something like that and then we'd be able to look him up and yeah he's on our database and there he is he was a

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Not just in the home guard or not just a farmer.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

He was one of these remarkable guys who didn't say anything to anyone.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Who makes the...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So it's all kind of risk assessment.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I mean, ones that have been found, the trouble is with them, if they're completely, if we think they haven't been discovered since they were shut up in 19, so the auxiliary units were stood down in November 44.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

If we think that hasn't been opened up since then, there's all kinds of air issues.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And equally, there's every chance that there's still a fuckload of explosives

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

in the bunker or weapons in the bunker.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So you have to be... Have you found any weapons?