Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 55
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Cronin
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men being kept there, you know, a couple or three months.
Another man got out that was with me--a radioman. This
was the best man I ever knew. Nobody can take his place.
He was just a pure, honest-to-God man. I know that I
was visibly shaken in there because there wasn't anything
to do but just, you know, wonder what the hell's going
to happen next. They were on me about this "mickey."
They knew Bob was a radio operator, but . . . he said,
"Did you hear the church bells every hour," whatever
this was. I'd heard it, but I didn't think anything of
it. So he made a novena, and he knew how many novenas
he had made and how long he had been in this dark room.
A novena is a succession of nine somethings in the
Catholic faith. He made a novena, so time went by better
for Bob, but Bob always was a better man than any I
ever met, but he also was the roughest, toughest guy,
too. But anyway, that might be important to you. If
you check names as you meet Air Corps men, they will
probably have gone through Oberursel. If you ever meet
a British airman who was down in the early part of the
war, he very surely went through.
From there we went to a staging camp, and I'll tell
you something about a man from Belgium. We were put in
this camp, and it was a temporary camp. Now several
things happened. I'll name several of them quickly. The
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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/m1/57/?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.