Oral History Interview with Eugene R. Cronin, February 1, 1972 Page: 70
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Cronin
70that had to go sit in that thing for a couple of weeks.
He was punished pretty severely. He was written up in
Life magazine many years later as a squadron leader, or
a group leader, in Korea, but, no, there weren't too
many . . . I don't . . . I can't pick any particular
person out.
Awhile ago you mentioned the box.
Yes.
What was the box and what was it like?
Well, I was never in it. It was kept right out of the
compound, but as I remember it was a concrete box, and
I was told that you couldn't stand up straight in it.
You couldn't lay down, stretch your legs in it, and it
was a sweat box. And in some movie I saw they had one
just like that. But I was never in it. Now we were
told we'd get stuck in it. There wasn't any reason to
flaunt the guards or do anything that would put you in
there. I don't think the men had the strength to really
get in a lot of trouble.
But this fellow Bob Hinckley one time . . . we didn't
get any food. When the Russians liberated us they found
thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Red Cross
parcels that the Germans wouldn't even give to us. They
gave us these parcels along with this beef that we were
eating. But we got pajamas from the Red Cross, I believe.Marcello:
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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/m1/72/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.