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Contributing Institution:
Oskar Schindler Archives
Title: Corporal Robert T. Hawk's pencil drawings collection
Identifier/Call Number: 2019.005.h.r
Physical Description:
4 Item
Contains four pieces of paper of pencil drawings.
Date (inclusive): 1943-1945
Abstract: 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.
Language of Material:
English
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This collection is comprised of four sheets of paper including pencil drawings by Corporal Robert T. Hawk. He drew these during
his service in the United States Army between 1943 to 1945. There are two separate portraits of United States soldiers. Another
sheet of drawings includes a soldier firing his rife, and two marksmanship badges including Carbine 30 Cal. M.G. and Rifle
Pistol T.S.M.G. Additionally, there is drawing of the United States Amry's military insignias made up of, infantry, cavalry,
armored force, signal corps, engineers, medics, air crops, and ordinance.
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.
This collection is open for research use.
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
[Item title/description; Box number/ Folder number]Corporal Robert T. Hawk's pencil drawings collection (2019.005.h.r), Oskar
Schindler Arhive, Chapman University, CA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945)
United States. -- Army.
Art and war
World War (1939-1945) -- Caricatures and Cartoons
Hawk, Robert