(1892) Lewis Collection of Gems and Rings in the Possession of Corpus Christie College (Cambridge)
Lewis Wickens Collection (CA5371)
Transcript of Lewis Wickens Collection (CA5371)
PRELIMINARY INVENTORY
ACCESSION CA5371
LEWIS WICKENS COLLECTION
THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
5/21/2020
This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri, Research Center-
Columbia. If you would like more information, please contact us at [email protected].
Dates: 1940s-2000s
Creator: Wickens, Lewis, collector
Collection Size: 20 cubic feet, 17 video cassettes
Introduction
Published works, videocassettes, and personal papers primarily relating to World
War II fliers and prisoners of war.
Donor Information
The collection was donated to the University of Missouri by Lewis Wickens on 28
October 1993.
Box List
Boxes 1-15
Books (see attached list at end of inventory)
Box 16
Buddies of the Ninth Association (BOTNA) – bulletins, correspondence
POWs “To File” – correspondence
Outreach – clippings, notes re. DAV, VA, AX-POW
Steve Yarema – clippings
Dept. of Missouri AX-POW 1994 – scrapbook
Mother’s WWI Memorial – clippings, flyers, newsletters, calendars
National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville, GA – flyers, promotional material
Medsearch – clippings, reports
May/95 POW Medsearch – correspondence
American Ex-POW Lecture Series – “The Presumptive Service-Connected Disabilities”
(Vols. I, II) by William Paul Skelton III, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Frostbite – clippings, personal appearance hearing
Means Tests & Copayments – clippings
New VA Regs – clippings, service officer’s training guide
Veterans Admin – clippings, correspondence
United States Air Force Museum – 2001-2003 calendars
Poems
Memoir – Fly High … Fly Low: My Story as a Fighter Pilot in World War II by C.
Richard Goff, Captain U.S. Army Air Force 1942-1945
Travel Guide, 1993 Andersonville, GA, reunion – clippings, correspondence
Andersonville – clippings, brochures
Sec’y. Brown & V.A. – clippings
Tricare References – clippings, planning guide
POW The American Experience, 1988
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Guide to Ex-POW Benefits
Information on Death Benefits for Survivors, 2001 (AX-POW)
DAV State Department of Missouri – Directory of Federal Benefits for Veterans and
Dependents, 2000-2002
The Retired Officers Association (TROA) – Help Your Surviving Spouse—Now!, 1998;
SBP Made Easy: The Survivor Benefit Plan, 1998
AX-POW – What Every POW’s Wife Should Know Before She’s Your Widow, 2001
Misc. – clippings, brochures
Lewis A. and Agnes Wickens – college transcript, teacher’s record, unofficial credit
book, nursing certification
Box 17
Medsearch binders – clippings, reports
Poems binder – clippings
Box 18
My Book II – clippings, correspondence, cards, certificates, convention program
NW MO Andersonville – clippings, brochures, map
Japs – clippings
I POWs/Japan – clippings
II POWs/Japan – clippings
POW/Copier – clip art, letterhead
Stalag Luft I (Copier) – clippings, correspondence, clip art
Press Releases – clippings, releases
Past POW Clips – clippings, correspondence
POW Articles – clippings, correspondence
POW Stories – clippings, clip art
Leavenworth – clippings, contact info re. VA hospital
Poems
Nazi Camps – clippings
My Book – Lewis Wickens photograph, clippings, notes, correspondence, interview
transcript, certificates, cards
L.A. Wickens Jr. – vitae, correspondence, job descriptions
Pony Express – clippings, correspondence, photographs, programs
Pony Express Lists/Members
Box 19
AXPOWs Now – clippings, statistics
AXPOWs History – clippings, statistics, order forms
AXPOW Service Foundation – clippings, newspapers
By-Laws – constitutions and bylaws, national meeting minutes, convention materials,
directory, parliamentary procedures, applications, calendar
P.O.W.—MO. – clippings, correspondence, programs, addresses, histories, membership
list
VFW Centennial Convention materials, 1999
K.C. VA Med – clippings, maps, questionnaire
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VFW – life membership cards, stickers, clippings, brochures, catalogue
K.C. Liberty Wall – correspondence, Walk of Honor certificates, brochures, clippings
Flag – clippings, clip art, booklets
Empty Chair – clippings
Heart of America – clippings, newsletters, cards, correspondence, programs, photographs
Missouri Veterans Home—Cameron – clippings, correspondence, photographs,
newsletters, brochures
American Ex-Prisoners of War – forms, clippings, brochures, cards, correspondence,
calendar images, address lists
POW Legislative – clippings
Air Museums / Shows – clippings, brochures, Guide to Over 800 Aircraft Museums 17th
Edition, photographs
WW III – clippings
“Valor” – clippings (mostly Air Force Magazine columns)
History – clippings
History II – clippings, photographs
History III – clippings, Air & Space/Smithsonian March 2003
Stealth – clippings
“Gallery” – clippings, aircraft images
Misc. Flight – clippings, booklets
Genevieve’s – Genevieve Thompson clippings
Box 20
A Modern Day Tragedy (AX-POW)
Information on Death Benefits for Survivors (AX-POW)
MIAs – clippings
Stories – clippings
History of Dale E. Allan for History Book of 491st Bomb Group in W.W. II
Misc. Brochures, newsletter
Korea – clippings
MIA’s Current – clippings
MIA – clippings
Task Force Omega – newsletters
Scrapbook
Skidmore (Data Base & Freedom Fest) – scrapbook, clippings
Extra POW Books (Sources) – reviews, lists, clippings
MIAs – clippings
Hungry Hollow Bunch Collection – Dale Allan Diary Additions
World War II Chronicle, vol. 7 no. 1
Ex-POW Bulletins (4)
The Presumptive Service-Connected Disabilities (AX-POW)
Clippings (misc.)
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Spring 1997 vol. 9 no. 3
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Spring 1992 vol. 4 no. 3
Air Power History, Spring 2000 vol. 47 no. 1
Clippings (found in volumes)
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Box 21
20th Century with Mike Wallace -- Portraits in Courage: Air War in Vietnam and the
Prisoners of War/POWs – video
True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai – video
Sentimental Return to Bataan & Corregidor – video
Behind the Wire: Allied Airmen in German Captivity – video
Victory – video
Stalag Luft – video
The American Experience: Return With Honor – video
Echoes of Captivity – video
Andersonville: The Great Untold Story of the Civil War – video
Berga: Soldiers of Another War – video
Hart’s War – video
Misc. videos (6) – some copyrighted
Wickens Book Collection
Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
13th Mission
Martindale 1998 WW II No
1944 Over the Beaches
Foreman 1994 WW II No
313 Days to Christmas
Mackay 1998 WW II No
88: The Flak/Pak 8.8cm
Ellis 1998 WW II No
9th Air Force in World War II
Rust 1967 WW II No
A-10 Warthog: America's Mudfighter
Drury 1993 Mult. No
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Hackworth 1989 Mult. Yes
Against All Odds
Worthen 1996 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Air Power at the Battlefront
Gooderson 1998 WW II No
Aircraft Down!
Caine 1997 WW II No
American Ex-Prisoners Of War
(none) 1991 Mult. No
(none) 1994 Mult. No
American Ex-Prisoners of War Membership Directory
(none) 1999 Mult. No
American Ex-Prisoners of War of World War II Vol I
(none) 2002 WW II No
American Ex-Prisoners of War: Non Solum Armis
(none) 1986 Mult. No
Hatch 1988 Mult. No
American Ex-Prisoners of War: To The Survivors
Skelton Mult. No
American POWs of World War II
Bird 1992 WW II Yes
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
And I Was There
Layton 1985 WW II Yes
And So It Was
Truluck 1990 WW II No
Andersonville
Vaughan 1996 Civil War No
Andersonville: The Last Depot
Marvel 1994 Civil War Yes
Angels Zero: P-47 Close Air Support in Europe
Brulle 2000 WW II No
Anti-Warrior: A Memoir
Felsen 1989 WW II No
Armageddon: The Second World War
Ponting 1995 WW II No
Arnhem: A Tragedy of Errors
Harclerode 1994 WW II No
Atlantic Battle Won: May 1943-May 1945
Morison 1956 WW II Yes
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Axis Aircraft of World War II
Mondey 1984 WW II No
Bail-Out! POW, 1944-1945
TenHaken 1990 WW II No
Before Honor
McDaniel 1975 Vietnam No
Behind Barbed Wire
Roy 1946 WW II No
Behind Japanese Lines
Hunt 1986 WW II Yes
Behind the Sawali
Woodcock 2000 WW II No
Belly of the Beast
Pearson 2001 WW II No
Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz
Cooper 1991 WW II No
Beyond the Wild Blue
Boyne 1997 Mult. No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Beyond Valor
O'Donnell 2001 WW II No
Blood, Sweat, & Fears
Anderson WW II No
Blood-Dimmed Tide
Astor 1992 WW II No
Bracelet For Lily
Goodie 1997 WW II No
Bunker's War
Bunker 1996 WW II No
Caged Eagles
Haugland 1992 WW II No
Captured By The Indians
Drimmer 1961 Mult. No
Captured Honor
Wodnik 2003 WW II Yes
Code of Federal Regulations
(none) 1995 Mult. Yes
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Code to Victory
Franco 1998 WW II No
Code-Name Bright Light
Veith 1998 Vietnam Yes
Colditz
Chancellor 2001 WW II Yes
Combine 13
Hopewell 2000 WW II No
Concentration Camps: North America
Daniels 1981 WW II Yes
Cross Channel Attack
Harrison 1950 WW II Yes
Crowd Is Not Company, A
Kee 1982 WW II No
Damned to Glory
Scott 1944 WW II No
Darker Shades of Blue: The Rogue Pilot
Kern 1999 Mult. No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Date With The Lonesome Lady, A
Cartwright 2002 WW II Yes
Dear Donald, Dear Bennett
Cerf 2002 WW II Yes
Desert Fox in Normandy
Mitcham 1997 WW II Yes
Do You Understand, Huh?
Abraham J 1992 WW II No
Domain of Heroes
Dillon 1995 WW II No
Donald's Story
Merrill 1996 WW II No
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain
Collier 1966 WW II No
Eighty Thieves
Iannarelli 1991 WW II No
Emperor's Guest 1942-45
Fletcher-C 1992 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Ernie's War
Pyle 1986 WW II Yes
Erwin Nine
Padgett 1993 WW II No
Escape and Evasion
Dear 1997 WW II No
Escape From Colditz
Reid 1953 WW II No
Reid 1952 WW II No
Evader
Dolph 1991 WW II No
Factories of Death
Harris 1994 WW II Yes
Faith of my Fathers
McCain 1999 Mult. Yes
Fated to Survive
Maher 1992 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents
(none) 2000 Mult. Yes
Few: Summer 1940, The Battle of Britain
Kaplan 1989 WW II No
Fight for the Air
Turner 2000 WW II No
Fight For The Sea
Turner 2001 WW II Yes
Fighter Pilot
Kaufman 1993 WW II No
Foo:A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun
Fujita 1993 WW II No
For You, The War Is Over
Williams J 1995 WW II No
Forgotten Victims
Bard 1994 WW II Yes
Four Came Home
Glines 1995 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
From A Dark Sky
Kelly 1996 Mult. No
From Among The Many: The Price of Freedom
Watts 1996 WW II No
Gathering of Eagles
Coy 1999 Mult. Yes
Ghost Soldiers
Sides 2001 WW II Yes
Give Us This Day
Stewart 1956 WW II Yes
God Is My Co-Pilot
Scott 1944 WW II Yes
Grandpa's War: A World War II Diary
Lewis 1992 WW II No
Great Escape
Brickhill 1950 WW II Yes
Great Raid
Breuer 2002 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Hidden Horrors
Tanaka 1996 WW II Yes
History of the Second World War
Liddell Ha 1970 WW II Yes
Hitler's Secret Bankers
LeBor 1997 WW II Yes
Hungry Hollow Remembered
McCarthy WW II No
Ike & Monty: Generals at War
Gelb 1994 WW II Yes
I'm "Fred"
Peschl 1999 WW II No
Imperfect Justice
Eizenstat 2003 WW II Yes
In Enemy Hands
Swedberg 1997 WW II No
Invasion '44
Turner 1959 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
It Was My War: I'll remember it the way I want to!
Sefton 1994 WW II No
Jochen Peiper
Whiting 1986 WW II No
Journey Through Hell
Stamp 1993 WW II Yes
Jump For It! Stories of the Caterpillar Club
Bowman 1957 WW II No
Kriegie: An American POW in Germany
Richard III 2000 WW II No
Last Man Out
Charles 1988 WW II No
Lest We Forget: A POW Memoir of World War II
McCullen 1997 WW II No
Life After Liberation
Kelnhofer 1992 Mult. No
Listen My Children So It Can't Happen Again
Lovoi 1996 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
M.I.A.
Mather 1994 Vietnam Yes
M.I.A. (Missing In Action)
Causer 1977 WW II No
Mad Rebel … A Youth At War
Oliphint 1998 WW II No
Mammoth Book of True War Stories
Lewis 1992 Mult. No
Man Escaped, A
Devigny 2002 WW II No
Mangan's War: A Personal View of World War II
Mangan 2003 WW II No
March to Victory
Bookman 1994 WW II Yes
Men We Left Behind
Sauter, Ma 1993 Vietnam No
Military 100
Lanning 1996 Mult. No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Missing In Action
Moramarc 1998 WW II No
Mosquito
Bowman 1998 WW II No
Mustang Aces of the Ninth & Fifteenth …
Scutts 1995 WW II No
Mustangs & Unicorns
Smith 1997 WW II No
My Hitch In Hell: The Bataan Death March
Tenney 1995 WW II No
My Story "The First Four Days"
Hitzeroth WW II No
Nanjing Massacre
Honda 1999 WW II No
New Book of Knowledge: World War II in Color
(none) 1984 WW II Yes
Ninety Days
Carmichae 1971 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Ninth Air Force In Colour
Freeman 1995 WW II No
No Less A Hero
Ingle 1994 WW II No
Normandy 1944: Allied Landings and Breakout
Badsey 1997 WW II No
Norway 1940
Kersaudy 1987 WW II Yes
Not As Briefed
Greening WW II No
O'Donnell: Andersonville of the Pacific
Olson 1985 WW II No
Officers in Flight Suits
Sherwood 1996 Korea Yes
On The Spring Tide
Rowan 1998 WW II No
On Wings to War: Teresa James, Aviator
Churchill 1992 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
One Hundred Candles
Wiley 2001 WW II No
Only Angels Have Wings
Blood 1997 WW II No
Operation Bolero
Wakefield 1994 WW II No
Over Lord
Hughes 1995 WW II Yes
Overlord's Eagles
Sullivan 1997 WW II No
P-47 Pilots: The Fighter-Bomber Boys
Glenn 1998 WW II No
Parachute to Berlin
Bennett 1945 WW II No
Passages to Freedom: A Story of Capture and Escape
Frelinghuy 1990 WW II No
Patton's Gap: Mustangs Over Normandy
Rohmer 1981 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Paying for the Past
Pross 1998 WW II Yes
Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans
Goldstein 1993 WW II Yes
Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War
Speer 1997 Civil War No (SHS holds)
POW/MIA America's Missing Men
Robertson 1995 Vietnam No
Prisoner of the Turnip Heads
Wright-No 1994 WW II No
Prisoner of War
Steele 1986 WW II No
Prisoner's Duty, A
Doyle 1997 Mult. Yes
Prisoners of Hope
Keating 1994 Vietnam Yes
Prisoners Of Nazis
Spiller 1998 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Prisoners Of The Japanese
Daws 1994 WW II Yes
Prisoners of War and their Captors in World War II
Moore, Bo 1996 WW II No
Private Life of Kim Philby: The Moscow Years
Philby 1999 Mult. Yes
Purple Heart
Borch 1996 Mult. No
Quest For Freedom
Files 1991 WW II No
Raft, The
Trumbull 1992 WW II Yes
Railway Man
Lomax 1995 WW II Yes
Rape of Nanking
Chang 1997 WW II Yes
Republic F-105 Thunderchief
Davis 1998 Mult. No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Return To Freedom
Grashio, S 1982 WW II No
River Kwai Railway
Kinvig 1992 WW II No
Road to Arnhem: A Screaming Eagle in Holland
Burgett 1999 WW II No
Road to Victory
Colley 2000 WW II No
Scars & Stripes
McDaniel 1975 Vietnam No
Search For MIAs
Smith 1992 Vietnam No
Secrets of Victory
Sweeney 2001 WW II Yes
Sensei: The Ultimate American
Zaugg 1995 WW II No
Seven Years among Prisoners of War
Christians 1994 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Sever the Sky: Seversky Aircraft Evolution
Maloney 1979 WW II No
Shobun: A Forgotten War Crime in the Pacific
Goodwin 1995 WW II No
Shoe Leather Express Book II
O'Donnell 1986 WW II No
Shootdown
Wheeler 2002 WW II No
Shot Down in Occupied France
Bubenzer WW II No
Sitting It Out: A World War II POW Memoir
Westheim 1992 WW II Yes
Soldiers of Misfortune
Sanders, Ji 1992 WW II Yes
Special Prisoner
Lehrer 2000 WW II Yes
Spectator in Hell
Rushton 1998 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Survival
Higgins 1999 WW II No
Surviving the Day: An American POW in Japan
Grady 1997 WW II Yes
Tartan Pimpernel
Caskie 1957 WW II No
Terrors and Marvels
Shachtman 2002 WW II Yes
Test of Courage
Robbins 1999 WW II No
Thanks for the Memory
Lucas 1998 WW II No
Three Days to Pearl
Shepherd 2000 WW II No
Thunder Factory
Stoff 1990 Mult. No
Thunder Monsters Over Europe
Nolte 1986 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Thunderbolt Out of the Blue
Steele 2001 WW II No
Ticket to Hell
Harwood 1994 WW II No
Top Secret Tales of World War II
Breuer 2000 WW II Yes
Two Sides of the Beach
Blandford 1999 WW II No
U.S.A. The Hard Way
Armstrong 1991 WW II No
Undercover Tales of World War II
Breuer 1999 WW II Yes
Unit 731 Testimony
Gold 1996 WW II No
Unjust Enrichment
Holmes 2001 WW II No
VE Day in Photographs
McKnight 1995 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
War Behind the Wire
Wilson 2000 WW II No
War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause
Gause 1999 WW II No
War Pilot of Orange
Vandersto 1987 WW II No
Wartime Log
Beltrone 1994 WW II No
We Band of Angels
Norman 1999 WW II No
We Die Alone
Howarth 1955 WW II No
We Regret To Inform You …
Rutkowski 2000 WW II No
We Were Each Other's Prisoners
Carlson 1997 WW II Yes
When Hell Was In Session
Denton Jr. 1982 Vietnam Yes
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
When We Were One: Stories of World War II
Heinz 2002 WW II No
Whispers of Death: Yankee Kriegies
Howell 1985 WW II No
Women Who Wrote the War
Sorel 1999 WW II Yes
World Apart
Herling 1986 WW II Yes
World War II
McCombs 1983 WW II No
World War II In The Air:Europe
Sunderma 1963 WW II No
Written with the Bayonet
Hodgson 1996 WW II No
Wrong Side of the Fence
Halmos Jr. 1996 WW II Yes
WW II: A Tribute in Art and Literature
Colbert 2001 WW II No
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Title ConflictCopyright MU Holds Author(s)
Yankee Kriegies
Greening, WW II No
Yanks Over Europe: American Flyers in World War II
Klinkowit 1996 WW II Yes
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