Myriads of balloons floating over beaches and 1. Signal lamps winking to shipping from naval station in bombed house on shore. We ran in to improvised jetty at about 5.30 p.m. and dumped heavy kit near beach. Saw truckload of German prisoners here. Villages were bashed about by Navy.
Inhabitants look grey and dirty, but buildings very well built of grey stone.
Out of villages into open fields, and stopped just north of village called T . Here we were to spend night before being sent to here. Our area for the night was edge of wheat strip on some rough. The country from here looked quite English - rolling, woods and corn, and stone church spires above the trees. 28 June .