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Abraham Hankin papers, 1941-2005.
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Title:
Abraham Hankin papers, 1941-2005Creator/Contributor:
Hankin, Abraham Louis, 1920-2006, creatorAbstract:
The papers provide an in-depth look at the life of a career United States Air Force officer in the 1940's and early 1950's.
Includes correspondence, military orders, and information on Hankin's time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines.
Date:
1941 (issued)Subject:
Hankin, Abraham Louis -- 1920-2006 -- ArchivesUnited States. -- Air Force -- Officers
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Prisoners of war -- United States
Prisoners of war -- Japan
Prisoners of war -- Philippines
Note:
Abraham Hankin papers, BANC MSS 2010/105, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Abraham Louis Hankin, the son of Russian immigrant parents, was born in Philadelphia in 1920. He received B.A and M.A. degrees
in public and business administration from U.C. Berkeley. He was a prisoner of war in the Philippines and Japan from 1942-1945.
He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, working as a financial specialist in the United States,
Europe, and Libya. Near the end of his life he received the Purple Heart. He died in 2006 and was buried at Arlington National
Cemetary.
Type:
Scrapbooks.Telegrams.
Physical Description:
print
3 boxes, 1 volume (1.2 linear feet)
Language:
English