Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 78
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have killed everybody. Of course, the German guards
were gone, too. There was a funny story of a Russian
who was in this little town of Barth. They had cobblestone
streets, as I remember it. But anyway, the story was--I
did not see this--that he was drunk, and he was riding a
bicycle, and he couldn't manipulate this bike. He had
a tommy gun over his shoulder and it kept falling. He
finally fell, got up, took the gun out, and emptied a
whole drum, probably twenty or thirty shells, into the
bike and sent people screaming everywhere. The shells
were ricocheting. Those people were nuts, but they could
care less about shooting and killing Germans. But they
would protect us with their lives. But the smart boys
stayed in that camp, and, of course, lived to tell it.
Oh, I told you about these girls. This is something
that I detest to this day. Word came in through that
radio to this colonel and down to us that we were going
out and that we were to get in these planes, but we were
to leave all German civilians there. We don't bring any.
They made this deal with the Russians. Now this is unfair.
We walked out of that camp leaving those girls there, and
God knows what happened to them. We should have brought
them back. This is an indictment of our . . . I think
that young kids that you teach today should know that we
did try to pinpoint bombs, that guys did not shoot up
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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/m1/80/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.