00:00 Egan was in London on leave, and he got word that Cleveland had been shot down.
00:07 Egan was so incensed that he immediately canceled his leave and returned to the base and said, "I'm leading the next mission."
00:17 The Munster raid was a city-busting operation, a new thing for the Eighth Air Force.
00:22 The target was a strategically essential rail yard in the city center and also a neighborhood of workers' housing that abutted it.
00:31 In the fight against Nazi tyranny, human flesh and bone became a target, an essential part of the Reich's war machine.
00:40 There was tension in the room. A lot of the airmen, for the first time ever, questioned the mission.
00:47 Egan makes a speech that we're going to fly this one for Cleveland, and this is a revenge raid.
00:54 [END]
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