Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 12
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Cronin
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Marcello:
Cronin:bombing was hard enough in the daytime let alone trying
to do precision bombing at nighttime.
Well, we were to become a night crew, and being a night
crew, we had . . . we were knocked down on our last
daylight mission, and we were to become a night crew,
so we had a little verbal training which might be of
interest later on. We were to coordinate with the British,
and I know very little about it, but it was not the
pinpoint bombing that we did. But that's important, I
think. The people should always know that as far as I
ever saw and anyone I ever met, we never at this stage
of the game had targets of opportunity. I'm sure the
fighters had targets of opportunity, but we were in at
targets, and they were specific war targets.
I presume that everybody wanted to get twenty-five
missions in and get out.
That's all you thought about. That's what I feel so
badly about these poor devils over there today. All you
thought about was the twenty-fifth target or the
fiftieth mission, whichever. We had one man from Tampa,
Florida, who took a position on one of the guns on this
trip. We had a man who had a bad cold and stayed back,
and he went up with us. His name was Fernandez from
Tampa, and he was on his last mission. That's all he
talked about, and he spent the rest of the war as a
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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/m1/14/?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.