The machines work everywhere, everything is done in the American way.
For most of the work is done by machines of various types, spinning steel over our heads.
The so-called "consolidations" are carried out by the English with all precision and it seems that no force will be able to move them from these regions without their consent.
Our soldiers are "eyeballing" everything that is going on around us. Everyone is happy to be on this side. The brigade has soldiers in its ranks who, while in the German army, defended this shore, and three weeks later they landed with the Polish troops to beat up the Germans.
They are mostly Poles from the western lands1.
Kazimierz Duda - War Chronicles - 2 August 1944 - Page 50
1 Coming from the regions that had belonged to Germany before the Second World War. These Polish soldiers from the Wehrmacht were the only reserve force of the 1st Polish Armoured Division.
Translation from French version: Steven Duda
Original page 50