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Andrew Chatterton

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, they do.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

But yeah, yeah, we were, and you know, this is my whole,

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

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

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Dave and I were talking about pillboxes and tank lines and stop lines and, you know, all this stuff was in place.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Loads of regulars.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

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.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

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.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Well, they might have got a foothold and then the Royal Navy would have come down and absolutely smashed them.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

So we were massively prepared and hugely powerful.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, let's do it.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

How long do you reckon until we're... How long to upline from here, Sean?

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

We're having that extensive country pub lunch.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

We've had to upline the place.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Right, time to upline.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Well, we'll see you in the next hour.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Over to you.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

So, the bunker is off a zigzag in a road, then down a hill by a rhododendron bush.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, they called it, I don't know, we want to...

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

If we find it intact, I'm not sure we want to give away.

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S10 Ep 366 David goes bunker hunting with WW2 historian Andrew Chatterton

Yeah, so we got the name of the woods and we got the name of the road.