Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 48
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Cronin
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check this with other American fliers that may know more
about it than I do. At Frankfurt am Main . . . well,
anyway, they took us from Frankfurt, put us on a street-
car, and took us to a place where they were going to
feed us, get a meal and a bath.
Incidentally, Frankfurt was hit pretty hard by Allied
bombing raids.
There wasn't a piece of it . . . there wasn't . . . no
glass . . . it was torn all to hell. The yards were hit
hard but the tracks were perfect.
Did you ever have any remorse about what you were seeing?
In other words, it's one thing to be up in the air, I
would imagine, to drop bombs, you know. It's kind of an
impersonal thing, perhaps, but you know here you are
on the ground now, and you can perhaps see for the first
time the damage that was being done.
I think I had a feeling of sorrow for the people, but
I think my feeling was probably one of selfishness to
want to live, but I know as we went along I had a feeling
of sorrow for the people. But I also had a feeling of
pride in America because one of the things I got to see
for myself was that the Germans broke down as compared
to America breaking down because they take orders one
from the other, and nobody does anything on their own
initiative unless he's told. For example, the firstMarcello:
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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/m1/50/?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.