| 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 47 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029051 |
| OCR Text |
Show P T RKLI 21 200 PK: H g t th ngm rs from our outfit to mov t or i a- that a aft r I l ft it-but h got them to build a real wide field with ix runway landing and taking ff airplanes at a time abreast. He increased the bombing range 100 miles by th fu 1 savings taking off and landing those. When I left the outfit we were taking off and landing three abreast. Then it just kept working up through the six. The outfit I was in, 319th Bomb Group, was the only outfit that flew three different airplanes in combat: flew the Martin B-26, the North American B-25 and the Douglas A-26. They served in North Africa, they served in France, were stationed in France, they came back to the States and reformed and went to the Pacific. The only outfit that served in all three theaters, the only one with six-plane landing and take offs and the only one when they switched from B-26s to B-25s they never lost a day of combat. They'd get a 25 and mix it in with the 26s and fly the two planes together on missions until they got all B-25s. But like is say, Colonel Holsapple, Randy Holsapple, was a man who wanted to get things done and our outfit became known as Colonel Holsapple's flying circus (laughs). UNI: How did you get the medals that you got? PK: Well, I got the Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters because we got, we got the Air Medal for five missions. Then we got an oak-leaf cluster for each additional five and where I had been on twenty-one missions, I got it for twenty missions, which was the Air Medal with three oak-leaf clusters. Then the campaign ribbon that I got was North Africa. I had a silver star on that and that indicated that I had taken part in five different campaigns: Algeria, Tunis, Foggia, Naples, and I forget the other one, but it was all listed on my discharge papers. Then I've got, I think there was an American Defense Ribbon and there's another defense ribbon, a yellow one that was given because I was in the 46 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029051 |
