II. Training period of the squadron
In the first period of November1, training was not very intensive due to our recent installation and the large number of secondary activities ordered by the command.
Once everything was in order, we started the planned training in a hurry "since we had little time". The "short time" with which we had been alarmed since 1940 when the Polish detachments had arrived on British territory. We were regularly told that we had to be ready for battle within a certain time. Our detachments should have already gone to war many times (according to messages issued by the "p.p." agency 2). There were many training end dates. The Support Arms Battalion had been given a short training deadline within which to hurry "as the war may find us unprepared". The brigade imposed an agenda with the objectives to be studied.
Kazimierz Duda - Chronicles of War - November 1943 - Page 17
1 November 1943 at Innerleithen, following the reorganisation of the Polish Army Corps and the creation of the Support Arms Battalion.
2 p.p. "poczty pantoflowej" literal translation "slipper post", Polish locution meaning: gossip, rumours, unverified messages and also a means of diffusing information (Maria Sawicka)
Translation from French version: Steven Duda
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