Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 35
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Cronin
35took us in this truck that broke down a lot, but they
took us out to an open field, and if my memory serves
me right, we might have been in this truck two or three
hours. But they took us out into this open field, and
I remember on one edge of the field was a sort of a hill,
and there was a slight mist, and it was in the neighbor-
hood of eleven o'clock in the morning, and somebody blew
a whistle, and out of this long, low hill I guess a
hundred men came out.
These were Germans?
These were German soldiers, and they all lined up, and
we were a terrible looking sight. One man had hurt his
knee because he hit a tree or something on the way down.
We were half-carrying him. None of us had hats. We
were just a sorry looking crew, obviously, and some high-
ranking officer got up and read what was a citation, and
we realized that this bunch of people were being given
some kind of a citation while we were standing out there,
and this was quite a big thing, I guess. All of a sudden,
all hell broke loose, and sirens started blowing, and
this officer gave a command, and these people took off
through the fields, and all over this great big field,
just out of the earth, 88's started sticking in the air
in series of four. It was only then that we realized
that we were being brought to this group of gunners,
and they were told that they shot us down, which was aMarcello:
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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/m1/37/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.