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

https://shsmo.org/visit/columbia/

https://shsmo.org/visit/columbia/

mailto:[email protected]

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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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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


American Ex-Prisoners of War Membership Directory


American Ex-Prisoners of War of World War II Vol I

(none) 2002 WW II No

American Ex-Prisoners of War: Non Solum Armis


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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



Yankee Kriegies

Greening, WW II No

Yanks Over Europe: American Flyers in World War II

Klinkowit 1996 WW II Yes


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