| 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 54 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029058 |
| OCR Text |
Show PETERKLI KE 21 2005 anything happ ned. One base, one place that w did b mb in Italy. th y had a ncr t highway in a square around this town. UNI: How large was the town? PK: It was fairly small-I don't know how big it was-it was a fairly small town. But when they took pictures of the town after we bombed it, all of the bombs fell in that town and there was one little spot where a bomb or a couple of bombs had cut into this concrete road that was around there. All the rest of the bombs were in that town. One thing that we never told them was that the bombs hung up in one airplane and as he was in his swing away from the target, he was banking, his bombs released and they flew so far away they never showed up on the photo. But our group, our flight got real good recognition, no rewards or anything, but they called us in and said, "Hey, that's the best bombing we've ever seen." I came back from a mission one time and we had to go about four or five steps on the platform, and then into Intelligence for debriefing. It had been a long mission, a tough one, and I had my parachute and my Mae West, which we could inflate if we got shot down over water and that. General was standing up on the platform and he said, "How' d things go today, sergeant?" I said, "Tougher than hell." I walked up the steps and looked up. I was talking to General Doolittle (laughs). "Sir." But like I say, there was a comradeship and General Doolittle loved the Martin B- 26. He had one for his own personal airplane. He'd tell his men, he said, "I'm going out to fly with the 319th today." Okay. They'd call the 319th and cancel the mission; they didn't want him flying combat. UNI: But he wanted to? 53 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw6mvs/1029058 |
