| 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 52 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029056 |
| OCR Text |
Show PETERKLIN dropped bombs on him and he shot at us. The Italian peopl almost anything we wanted, they tried to do it for us. UNI: What other missions are memorable to you? 21 20 5 ry fri ndly and did PK: Well, I don't know. I remember going on missions when we had a lot of fighters come in on us. And there was one mission, I found out after the war, that this Captain Hailey, who was the first pilot that I flew with overseas, one of our planes got damaged and fell out of formation and quite a ways away and two enemy fighters took after him. Well, I turned my turret and I started shooting at them. Hailey said he looked out and he thought, that's a poor cause, they're just too far away. And all of a sudden I shot one of them down and the other one scared off and pulled back. I visited with Captain Hailey one time in Texas when I was down there and he mentioned this to some people we were visiting with. His wife said, "You know, I've got that story memorized. He tells that every time he's with somebody." UNI: (laughs) Did you get a confirmed kill for that? PK: No. the tail gunner on the damaged plane claimed that he shot it down. We tossed a coin and he won the toss so I didn't get credit for it. UNI: What other experience with fighters did you have? PK: It's hard to remember. Sometimes we wouldn't have any fighters on us. It would just be anti-aircraft. Then sometimes we'd have very little anti-aircraft fire. Maybe they didn't have hardly any guns at the target we were on. We were doing railroad yards and at one time we came back from, what I mentioned, a skip-bombing mission and we hadn't found any shipping, we still had our bombs. Well, the mission before that, we'd gone over a little town and we got shot at. Well, the flight leader said when we come 51 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029056 |
