Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 21
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airplane home--something about that that kept following
us. But, anyway, back to the day of the raid, I don't
remember the first part of it except that it was the
thirteenth, and I was afraid of the thirteenth. I was
going to mention that October 13, 1944, was a Friday,
and I remember that day. I sound like I'm very super-
stitious, but I'm aware that there is a thirteenth because
good things have happened to me, too. I sweated that
mission out, and we had a hell of a time that day. We
had a very bad, bad, bad day on Friday, October 13, when
we went to an oil target in Germany. But this morning
when we were knocked down, I don't remember much about
it except when we got into formation to go up . . . I
guess we went up the Adriatic that day, and going into
Germany we were having trouble with the plane.
Did your briefing officers give you any sort of hint as
to what was coming? In other words, did they tell you
what to be on the lookout for on this particular mission?
Yes.
What was the danger?
The danger was that it was an oil target, one of the
worst oil targets in Germany. We had been close to it
before. Yes, I think they told us there were 485 guns
on the target.
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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/m1/23/?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.