Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 9
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Cronin
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You see this black cloud and you know you've got to go
through it, and that is the thing that scares you. I
remember we were very scared--everybody was--but when
we'd get in there and I saw this red--a couple of other
men saw it--you know you're being hit. And when we came
out of our run, the old cliche'was that when you drop
those bombs you're on your time--you're on Army time
up to that time--so when you come out of there you turn
the aircraft and go as fast as it could possibly go and
get out of there. And I remember we were pulling away,
and there was a big hole between my legs, and . .
oh, oh, coming off of the run, I was not toggling that
day. Ray Miltimore was and said, "My God, the switch
was knocked out of my hands." So we toggled our bombs
late. As we were coming off, Ray said, "There's a hole
between your legs," and he said that he lost the toggle
switch--the switch that he had--he had dropped them. We
salvoed the bombs that day, but in any event, it blew
this out of his hand, and this hole went right between
my legs, and it cut him up a little on his hand. It
didn't harm me at all.
This was a chunk of flak.
A piece of flak. And we found the flak in the compartment
later on, but we had a bunch of holes that day--maybe
forty or fifty holes. That's what was hitting us mostMarcello:
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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/m1/11/?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.