| 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 50 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029054 |
| OCR Text |
Show P TERKLINKE 21 200 Then they would load us in the truck and take us to th b ach and th n c uld w1m r be in the water in the afternoon, then back to base for night meal and th n w d g it n a hillside and watch a movie. UNI: That sounds like a pretty nice life. PK: It was. And it was pretty much free time. Except one time that we stayed overnight in town and we weren't supposed to and we got back late and found out we'd been called for a mission. We got our fatigues on made a run to the flight line, and there was the pilot. He'd just gone in and told them to cancel him because he didn 't have a crew. So he turned around went back in and said, "Put me back on the mission." When we got back off from the mission he said, "You guys are restricted to the base for two weeks." We made the mission all right, but it put him on the spot. The CO was going to chastise us and the pilot said, "Let me handle it." He just restricted us to the base for two weeks. But then we had Italian POWs that were doing the menial tasks, KP, policing up and that. One evening I was sitting in my tent and one of the Italians came in. They didn't have to be under guard while they were on our squadron area. Each squadron had about six or eight Italian prisoners. But if they went to another squadron, they had to be under guard. This Italian prisoner came to me and he wanted to know if I would take him to another squadron so he could visit a friend of his. I said, "Yes." He handed me a loaded 45 pistol that he was carrying. Where he got it, I don't know. I took him to that squadron, he visited with his friend and we got back. I handed the gun and said, "Here, take this back where you got it." But can you imagine a prisoner of war walking around carrying a loaded pistol? 49 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029054 |
