[WORLD WAR II]. Group of medals, condolence letters, and memorabilia of Walter Wicker Jr., an Eagle Squadron pilot killed in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Group of material related to the life and death in military action of Walter Charles Wicker Jr. (1923 – 1942), a Flight Sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Force and member of the No. 133 Eagle Squadron. His plane was shot down during an “offensive operation to Ostend (Belgium)…when leaving the Belgian coast the squadron was attacked by a large number of enemy fighters.” Grouping includes: letters from American and Canadian officials to Wicker’s mother informing her of her son’s death and offering sympathy; several snapshots of Wicker in uniform; a box of Wicker’s medals; several loose scrapbook pages with clipped reports of Wicker’s death, and his birth announcement from 1923; books and commemorative posters on the American Eagle Squadrons and Yanks in the RAF (several book inscribed to Walter’s sister, Nancy, by Philip D. Caine; and two others signed or with inserted material). Walter Jr. was the son of radio and stage actress Ireene Wicker, and great-grandson of early Chicago settler Charles G. Wicker.