Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 43
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Cronin
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at a Vienna raid a couple of times before this. A
P-51 goes screaming in from a very high altitude and
throws a bomb out of some type. It explodes and there's
tin foil flying every which way. Well, we had a Negro
P-51 pilot that went down in the same area that we did
this day, and we met this man in this hall in Vienna,
and we lived with him until we got to a permanent camp.
Now, this man belonged to a . . . in those days the Army
was segregated, and he belonged to a colored fighter
squadron, and he was one of the finest men that you ever
want to meet. He was a graduate of Tuskegee, and you
could tell he was always . . . you know, he was afraid
that he was going to be made to suffer for being black.
Later on they took a boy out of our group that had a
Jewish name and segregated him, and we didn't know what
happened to him, but this man was apprehensive about
being black, and he was later taken away from us. I
don't know what happened to him, but he was a fine
gentlemen. But I wanted to mention that some P-51's
that did get into that flak. I told you they didn't
awhile ago, but they got the hell out of there at about
500 miles an hour. But anyway, we're back in Regensburg,
and they put us on another train, and they took us all
through the Black Forest. It's beautiful.
Incidentally, what sort of trains were these? Were youMarcello:
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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/m1/45/?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.