Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 14
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14disoriented unless you can look and see where the wing
or the tail section is. If your electrical system would
go out, someone . . .
You had to hand-crank that thing back.
. . . had to hand-crank it up and then get the man out
of there. So if one were suffering from any
claustrophobia--of course, if they had that they
wouldn't get in these airplanes--but everybody was in
a compacted space, and if the ball turret were turned
in the wrong direction you had to crank it back. Of
course, this was true of any of the turrets, whether it
was the back turret, in the tail, or the nose turret,
but I didn't like that ball turret. I've flown in it
just for the thrill of it, but I didn't like it. I
would hate to sit there through a fighter attack and
get hit.
I understand that at the first sign of any trouble in
the airplane that ball turret gunner got the hell out
of there as fast as possible.
If he had any sense. It was against regulations. He's
supposed to stay there, but I'd have gotten out of there.
I think everybody had quite a bit of sympathy for him, also.
Yes, I think I'd have gotten out of there. I did not
fly in it during any air combat or anything like that,
so I didn't have any experience shooting from it exceptMarcello:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Cronin, Eugene R. Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972, book, February 1, 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529237/m1/16/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.