Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 41
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Marcello:
Cronin:Cronin
41
I was going to ask you what sort of care they had been
giving you.
We hadn't had anything to eat yet, and it was the third
day. We got a piece of sausage, I remember, somewhere,
and some cheese somewhere else, and we were getting
ravenously hungry, I remember. And they gave us our
first . . . it was our first encounter with rutabagas.
Now if you ever talk to any American Air Corps
personnel, they'll know what rutabagas are. It was
not rutabaga soup. It was garbage, but it was hot, and
we ate it and were thankful for it, but even as hungry
as we were I remember I didn't like it, but we learned
to live with rutabagas from then on. But anyway, that
was the first warm thing we had, and the first day we
had a lot of bread, not a lot, but a little bit of bread,
but I remember we were ravenous. And they interrogated
us, but it wasn't rough interrogation there, and then the
next recollection I have is that we were put on another
train and we were sent to Regensburg, and in Regensburg
we had to sit in a depot. Regensburg is the city over
which was fought the largest air-to-air dog fight probably
in the history of the world. It took place over Regensburg--
German Air Force and the Americans. There was--I don't
remember now, but you research that--hundred planes over
it. I remember in this railroad station we were sitting
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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/m1/43/?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.