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Originally Posted by adibrook
I just thought that maybe if a guy can build it covertly in a concentration camp out of a canteen and a random stolen parts and 12v HT, it cant be that hard. I appreciate that i'm brobably dumber than that guy...but i DO have a good selection of parts, valves, 250v ht and no guards watchign me.
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Adi, most of the men in those 1940s POW camps weren't much older than you are. Some of the NCOs and officers would have been a *bit* older, but most Brits were called up on their 18th birthday and would have gone into active service before they were 20. My dad was born in 1923, was called up in 1943, and saw active service during the occupation of Italy in 1945. He was still only 22 then! (He never shot at anybody in anger though
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Paul