Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 31
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31of the men to get the chute, and we went into the edge
of this town. Now something real odd happened here,
and it may have accounted for any bravery I had, and
maybe this will be of interest. I went off of oxygen
somewhere around 20,000 feet and talked a little bit
to Ray and Jack. I guess I was the first one off oxygen,
and then I'd worked my way back to the back of the plane
to get out, so I had exerted a lot of energy at high
altitude, and on the ground I was so tired that I wasn't
myself--I just didn't care. They got me to the edge
of this little town, and by little town, I mean very,
very little, and this squad of about eight or ten
Germans got behind me with this Jerry screaming orders,
and they started marching. I kept standing still, and
they kept telling me to march, to move out, and they
were going to march behind me, and they were keeping
their regular cadence of about the normal Army cadence,
and, of course, I was slow.
These were army troops that had captured you?
Oh, yes, this was a German Army unit--infantry--and
they had been sent out there to get me. Now what I
didn't know was that a parade was coming up. I guess
you'd call it a parade. And we later found this happened
quite a bit, and this would be of interest to people
studying the war. There were a bunch of church bellsMarcello:
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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/m1/33/?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.