Finding Aid for the George Jankovsky Second World War correspondence 2017.223.w.r
Andrew Harman
Center for American War Letters Archives
7/16/2018
Leatherby Libraries
Chapman University
Orange, CA 92866
speccoll@chapman.edu
Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: George Jankovsky Second World War correspondence
source:
Gross, Kathleen A.
Creator:
Jankovsky, George, Private First Class, 1926-1985
Identifier/Call Number: 2017.223.w.r
Physical Description:
.08 Linear feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1945 March 30 - 1945 August 19
Abstract: This collection contains five correspondence from PFC George Jankovsky, USA, to the Hopkins family during the Second World
War.
Language of Material:
English
.
Container: WWII 21
Container: 4
Container: 1
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Kathleen Gross.
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Private First Class George Jankovsky, United States Army (7/8/1926 - 12/25/1985) was born in New Jersey to his parents Jerome
and Elizabeth and lived in Elizabeth, NJ until he entered the Army in September 1944. PFC Jankovsky served in clerical positions
with the 394th Infantry Division, Company D in Germany toward the end of the war and wrote home discussing the people and
how glad most of them were to see the Americans. He mentioned being in the 1st Army, then the 3rd before he was transferred
to G-4 Section Headquarters, 4th Infantry Division at Camp Butner, North Carolina by August 1945. He began work as a stenographer
before and after he was transferred, as his friends called him a "Rear Echelon Bastard," and a "Typewriter Commando." According
to the donor, his niece, he later worked as a stenographer recording the Japanese war crimes trials. PFC Jankovsky passed
away in Massachusetts in 1945.
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], George Jankovsky Second World War correspondence (2017.223.w.r), Center
for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
This collection contains five correspondence written by PFC George Jankovsky, USA to the Hopkins family during the Second
World War. Most of the letters are directed at his friend, he calls "little sister" Rose, and he discusses his time in Germany
toward the end and after the war.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945) -- Europe
World War (1939-1945) -- Germany
United States. -- Army.
World War (1939-1945) -- Japan
World War (1939-1945) -- Pacific Area
World War (1939-1945) -- Victory in Europe Day (VE Day)
Correspondence -- World War, 1939-1945
Gross, Kathleen A.