Whitehead Robert W.

Monuments

1LT Whitehead P-38 (44-25720) Memorial Crash Site

1LT Whitehead Grave-Cenotaph Memorial (37th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group,)

Name:

Robert W. Whitehead

Rank:

First Lieutenant

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37th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group

Date of Death:

1945-04-11

State:

Indiana

Cemetery:

Unknown

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Robert Whitehead was born in Lake County, Indiana in 1921.
He was a Pilot of a P-38 of the 37th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th Air Force based out of Italy. He died in a dogfight with a FW-190 on April 11, 1945 over Czechoslovakia. Two memorials in the Czech Republic remember his sacrifice (Srubec andCeske Budejovice- Dobra Voda Cemetery )
FROM THE 14th FIGHTER GROUP REPORTS:
Location, N. Of Strakonice, Czechoslovakia, Point Of Departure, Triolo, Italy. Hometown: Lake County, IN, killed in a dogfight on April 11, 1945 south-east of Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia. 1/Lt Whitehead with his flight of the 37th Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 15th USAAF, in P-38 (44-25720) had destroyed a couple of locomotives and railroad cars on a mission to the Munich, Germany area when he encountered a pair of FW 190s returning to the base from a fighter-bomber mission in Austria or Moravia. The winner was subsequently shot down by 1/Lt Whitehead's wingman 1/Lt Harry R Morris Jr. (Reference: Missing Aircraft Report {MACR} 13980)