Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 56
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Cronin
56first morning we were there a priest came in and woke
us up and said he was going to have mass, and this
priest had been captured a short time earlier at a
parachute jump. Oh, what was the name of that? Antwerp,
do you remember? In any event, when he jumped . .
It was close to Arnhem.
Yes. This would have happened like about a month ahead
of us. When he jumped he lost a package of hosts that
had been consecrated, and some soldier actually found
those on the ground and brought them to him. But that's
quite miraculous when you think how big an area you're
jumping in, but this was quite a man. There was a bomber
group that went down at this raid. This was one of the
big, big raids where they . . . oh, the paratroopers
stayed there so long. In any event, there was an
Irishman named Pat O'Rourke, I think his name was.
But this Belgian had washed out of the RAF. He
was a real young boy, and he got himself to Canada and
volunteered and became a gunner on a Canadian bomber and
was shot down. This man had a hate of the Germans that
was so deep and so terrible that it just scared you to
listen to him. It was the direct opposite, maybe, of
what I saw in that lady. It was a terrible, terrible,
terrible hate. This man's sister had.been killed by
the Germans. He told us the mayor of this little townMarcello:
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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/m1/58/?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.