Andrew Chatterton
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Yeah, they do.
But yeah, yeah, we were, and you know, this is my whole,
thing that I go on and on about is that we have this perception of kind of Britain as this unprepared weak alone pathetic country just waiting to be invaded but we were anything anything but that we were massively prepared across you know all areas um aux units and special duties branch of section seven but even the
Dave and I were talking about pillboxes and tank lines and stop lines and, you know, all this stuff was in place.
Loads of regulars.
We had an Air Force plan under Dowding that was completely designed for this exact scenario of the Battle of Britain that we just rolled out and the Germans were never going to beat us in that.
And Bomber Command and Coastal Command and the Royal Navy, like the biggest navy in the world, the Germans were never, ever going to cross the Channel, ever.
Well, they might have got a foothold and then the Royal Navy would have come down and absolutely smashed them.
So we were massively prepared and hugely powerful.
Yeah, let's do it.
How long do you reckon until we're... How long to upline from here, Sean?
We're having that extensive country pub lunch.
We've had to upline the place.
Right, time to upline.
Well, we'll see you in the next hour.
Over to you.
So, the bunker is off a zigzag in a road, then down a hill by a rhododendron bush.
Yeah, they called it, I don't know, we want to...
If we find it intact, I'm not sure we want to give away.
Yeah, so we got the name of the woods and we got the name of the road.