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Andrew Chatterton

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Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Sorry?

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Not since I've been doing it, no.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But we know... So, for example, between Exeter and Plymouth, widening the road up near the racecourse,

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

yeah you know and widening the road up the top of the hill there and um in the 70s i think and this old guy was running up this really steep hill saying stop digging because they're about to go through the roof of this operational base and it was stacked full of explosives still stacked full of explosives

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

An old patrol map.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So one of the guys who had been in the patrol during the Second World War... Flipping hell!

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

He's like, they're getting near that base.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I'm going to have to go and tell... Shit!

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So I can give you... So lots of these guys at the end of the war just basically shut up their bunkers and then went back to their own lives and tell anyone they had...

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

like the army was meant to come round and destroy the bunkers, but obviously the very nature of them meant that they couldn't find them.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They're also meant to destroy all the leftover ammo and stuff.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But I've got, if you've got two sets, so there's a guy called Reg Sinnott in Essex.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

He was a group commander.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So he's in charge of kind of four or five patrols.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So he would have been on the list as well.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

He was in charge of four or five patrols.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And in the 60s, he phoned up the police and said, I've got one or two bits left over from the war in my, well, I think a bit bigger than a shed, maybe a barn.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Can you come and collect them?

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I was expecting the army to come and collect them.