Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 11
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because of that and partially because when I got
overseas at this time the German war machine was being
torn down significantly, and our targets were always
oil targets, ball bearing targets, or aircraft plants,
or we had secondary targets of airfields.
By the time you got over there your particular flights
were not undertaking I guess what you would call saturation
raids. You were doing more what you would call precision
bombing. Is that correct? You had some specific targets
in mind?
I had a brother who was a pilot that flew these so-called
saturation raids on Dresden, but, no, I think it should
be very heatedly pointed out to historians that we.had
specific targets, we had specific alternates, and the
only time we saturated or dropped bombs promiscuously
was when we were in trouble. If your aircraft was hit
and you were losing altitude and had to get out, we
would salvo the bombs, but we always had specific targets
and that's real important.
Well, this was the whole theory behind daylight bombing
from the American standpoint. Isn't that correct?
Right.
I think the British probably engaged more in the
saturation bombing, as they would probably have to, because
they were bombing at night, and I would assume precisionMarcello:
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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/m1/13/?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.