The collection is comprised of Corporal Robert T. Hawk's pencil drawings during his servies in the United States Army between 1943 to 1945. His drawings encompases portraits of soldiers, as well as illustrations of marksmanship badges and the United States Amry's military insignias.

Corporal Robert T. Hawk was born on October 31, 1942, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and worked as a farm laborer as well as attending school. Hawk enlisted at the age of eighteen, on March 16, 1943. Hawk's headstone says he served in Company A, 489th Ordnance Evacuation Company, 37th Tank Division, although the donor said he served in the 4th Armored Division, 489th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Self-Propelled). Corporal Robert T. Hawk died on April 11, 1945, at the age of 20 in Luxembourg; most likely in the Battle of the Bulge. Hawk is buried at the Union Dale Cemetery in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

4 Item Contains four pieces of paper of pencil drawings.

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