Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 37
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Cronin
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I'd better keep this story in its logical order. We
were being taken out of the cell into another room,
and a man that spoke English as good as any English
teacher was interviewing us, and they kept asking me
a lot of questions about radar, and I didn't even know
what radar meant, you know. I knew nothing about it and
I forgot to tell you that our ship exploded. As
I said, this engine was going as fast as it could go,
and a couple of others were just windmilling, but there
was still quite a bit of gas in the tanks, and it must
have really blown up, and there was very little evidence.
What pieces that could act as evidence were being carried
by some German soldiers with us as we went along. They
carried such things as some of our parachutes, a couple
of oxygen tanks, and various things that they thought
might be revealing. So the interrogating, unbeknownst
to me at the time, probably had some significance, but
they interrogated me several times about navigation and
radar, and I didn't know why, and I truly stated--as we
all did--you know, I'm an airman and all this and that
and just name, rank, and serial number. But at this
jail, this particular man--I forget his name--has a part
in my story later on in France, but he said he was raised,
I think, in Maine. One of the interrogators was from Maine.
Anyway, he gave us a pretty hard time. He took his pistol
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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/m1/39/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.