| 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 37 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029041 |
| OCR Text |
Show P T RKLI 21 200 U I: Wh r is thi ? PK: That was at Fort Myers Florida. Then I was assigned to a r plac m nt c nt r in Louisiana Lake Charles, Louisiana. UNI: What time of year? PK: That was a ... UNI: Oh hold on one second. For some reason ... continue. When was it? PK: I think that was in about February of '44. Then what we did there was we trained crews. People would come there and form a crew and then we would train that crew for combat before they went overseas. [Interruption on tape] PK: Shortly after I got there, I found out that Captain Fleeter, who was the man I was telling you about that got shot down and A-20 went in picked them up, well, this pilot was in charge of the maintenance hangar there. He'd have to go up once a month and get his flying time in. He would call me. "Pete, you want to go for a ride?" "Sure." So I'd go down and check out a parachute and go with him. UNI: In Lake Charles, Louisiana? PK: Yes. And my wife and I had an apartment in town. But anyway, one mission we went on, or one time we went up, he had to drop flour sacks to simulate bombing and then I had to watch and see that he hit the target and that. But then one day he called me and he wanted to know if I had checked out in a pressure chamber so I could wear oxygen and go high altitude. I said, "Yes." So I went down and checked out an oxygen tank, or a mask and stuff, and we went up, we went in an A-26. We were up 25,000 feet and both engines quit. We started floating down and finally he got one engine started. A 36 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029041 |
