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Andrew Chatterton

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Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

They never did.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So the police turned up and they were like, because Reg had 14,738 rounds of ammunition.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

1,205 pounds of explosives, 3,742 feet of delayed action fusing, 930 feet of safety fuse, 144 time pencils, 1,207 long delay switches, 1,272 detonators, 719 booby traps, which is 314 paraffin bombs, 131 fog signals, 121 smoke bombs, 36 slabs of gun cotton, and 33 time pencils made up as booby traps.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, he's like, I've just got a few bits and bobs.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Imagine there's a piece turned up.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

But we get it all the time.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

We get people who are like clearing out granddad's garage and they know they're in your units and they take a picture of some box of something seeping out.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

We're like, yeah, that's explosive.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

You're going to have to get them.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Oh, it's quite in sharp.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So it's still, it's still, yeah, it's still a lot around.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

I know, it's crazy, isn't it?

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

And that was the spares, right?

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So that's the extent that the auxiliary units were armed.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

That was the spares for these four or five groups that he could then take round if they needed more.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, I do.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: WW2 Historian Andrew Chatterton

So I do.