| Title |
Peter Klinke, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Unidentified, August 21, 2005: Saving the Legacy tape no. 733 & 744 |
| Alternative Title |
Peter Klinke, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Klinke, Peter, 1920- |
| Contributor |
University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2005-08-21 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
England, United Kingdom; Algeria; Tunisia; Italy |
| Subject |
Klinke, Peter, 1920- --Interviews; Veterans--Utah--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Army Air Corps; Ball turret gunners; Aerial gunners; Parachute instructors; VFW; Veterans of Foreign Wars |
| Description |
Transcript (72 pages) of an interview by an unidentifed interview with Peter Klinke on August 21, 2005. From tape numbers 733 and 744 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Klinke (b. 1920) was born in Fortine, Montana. He joined the Air Corps as 18-years-old. He took basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missiouri and airplane mechanic school at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi. He became a flight engineer and joined his crew in June 1942. The B-26 crew flew overseas in October 1942, and was based in North Africa. Klinke flew a total of twenty-one missions before being shot down over Italy. He hid with friendly villagers for several days until he returned to US lines and eventually back to North Africa. He was shipped home in November 1943 and was assigned as a gunnery instructor in Louisiana until discharged at the end of the war. Mr. Klinke operated a Christmas tree farm as a career and was active in several military organizations. 72 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
72 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Military operations, Aerial--American |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029078 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs |
| Title |
Page 16 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029020 |
| OCR Text |
Show PETERKLI KE 21 2 05 compartment and the cockpit had the heat from th engm but that didn' t r mu h up at 10,000 feet. The next mission we went on ... UNI: Really quickly how did you close the bomb bay doors? PK: We didn't. We couldn't get them closed. UNI: So you just landed with them open? PK: Well, yes (laughs). Then when we got back near our base, I used an emergency system, emergency hydraulic system, and I got the main gear down. But I ran out of fluid before I could get the nose wheel down. So the pilot had to land with bomb bay doors open, no nose wheel and no brakes. The CO was on the ground and he called the pilot when he saw that he had the bomb bay doors open and no nose wheel he told the pilot to head the plane out towards the Mediterranean and have everybody bail out. Pilot said, "We've got a wounded man aboard. He can't bail out." The CO said, "Have another man bail out with him. Pull the wounded man's rip cord, fall free, and then pull his own rip cord." The pilot got on the intercom and said to everybody, "Hang on. We're going in." He figured that this wounded man had lost so much blood that when he hit the ground it might have killed him. He made a beautiful landing right on the main gear, held the nose up till he got almost to the end of the runway and then dropped the nose to slide us to a halt. Then the co-pilot grabbed the crash ax and chopped out the windshield so the medics could get a stretcher in to get the wounded man out. This plane was damaged enough then that the windshield didn't hurt anything. But the CO called the pilot on the carpet and he said, "I told you to bail out." The pilot said, "The radio must have gone out. I didn't hear you." UNI: So did anybody sustain any injuries during that landing? 15 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029020 |
