Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 34
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Were you worried about the prospect of having to sit
out the rest of the war in a POW camp?
I can't recall what our feelings were at the time. As
it went on we became pretty depressed, but I can't
remember at that time.
How long did you remain in this jail in Hungary, this
original one where you were first interned?
Just overnight. The next morning they put us in a truck--
I hadn't thought of this for a long time--they put us in
a truck, and it was our first experience in an automobile
whose engine was propelled by burning wood, and it was
a very slow process, but they took us . .
This should have given you some indication that all of
your missions probably had not been in vain. If they
were down to burning wood in vehicles, fuel was apparently
pretty scarce.
That's right. Well, more vivid was the grass-type roof
on homes and cobblestone streets that were exact replicas
of pictures that I had seen as a youngster, and I
remember somewhere from that first day we had a German
guard that could speak English, and he said that the
people in this town had never seen a telephone, so we
were in an eighteenth century atmosphere as far as we
were concerned. But anyway, the reason, I guess, that
they got us out SO quickly the next day is that they
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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/m1/36/?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.