Andy Chatterton

So some didn't even bother with an escape tunnel at all.

They are almost exclusively in coastal counties.

So if you think from the Orkneys at the top of Britain, kind of down the northeast coast, east coast, southeast corner, south coast, southwest and south Wales, there's not much on the west side of the UK because they didn't see there's a perceived threat from the Irish side.

They tend to be set in kind of five to six miles inland because they don't want to be caught up in any initial wave of invasion.

And then they're in areas where there's a key target as well.

So it might be near a key road or a key bridge or near an airfield that Luftwaffe might take over, a key manor house that the Germans might take as a local HQ.

In some cases, near the house of a prominent member of the British Union of Fascists who would have been seen as a collaborator and would have been assassinated immediately as well.

So...

tend to be five to six miles inland, near key targets, incredibly well disguised.

You do get a weird feel for it, because you kind of see, well, actually, that's a good escape route down there.

There's a river down there.

There's a good target there.

You do get a feel for it.

And what we do have is that in about 1943, a list of all of those who are currently serving in the auxiliary units in 1943

were put together with their addresses so as researchers all we have to play with is well actually these guys all seem to live near each other that's probably one patrol then you look at well actually there's a good target there oh and there's a forest there that's likely where the ob is you know if it's intact you could be walking around that forest for weeks without finding it but yeah it's a it'd be too easy you and i've got previous there buddy tearing around the new forest

What do you think, Andy?

Feel good?

Feels good.

Well, I can see wiggly tin already, which is a good sign.

Always a good sign.