| 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 17 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029021 |
| OCR Text |
Show PETERKLI PK: No. No. verybody came out fine on that. UNI: Wow. That's tremendous. 21 2 0 PK: And I flew twenty-one bombing missions. At times I was back and forth ... well we had too few airplanes when we got to Africa because the weather was so bad some of the planes were stranded in Goose Bay, Labrador, and some in the States. They had to go back and go to Brazil and then fly from Brazil to the Ascension Islands to the Gulf Coast and then up to where we were. And we lost quite a few planes in combat. So in February of' 43, we were pulled back for reforming. Get new airplanes, new crews and I helped train the new crews and then the ferry service would bring new airplanes into our base at Rabat, then we had to fly them to Algiers and they'd get them ready for combat. I got almost every one of those missions. Had different pilots every time and that, but for some reason, I was always the flight engineer. There had to be three men when the plane flew. I got almost every one of those ferry missions back and forth across North Africa. UNI: Did you volunteer for them? PK: No, they gave me orders. UNI: They just thought you were the best man for the job? PK: Yes. But I think I'd had enough experience with damaged planes, you know, and that I just got that job. Then when we got to Algiers, there were two other B-26 outfits that were still in combat. If they had a plane ready for combat then we'd have to fly it up to one of those groups, then they'd fly us back to Algiers. Then we had to find our way back to our base at Rabat. We flew almost any kind of a plane we could get, transports and B-17s, B-24s and anything going our direction. 16 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029021 |
