10 Facts About Don Whitehead

Don Whitehead won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting.

Don Whitehead was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

Don Whitehead's beats included coverage of the Eighth Army in Egypt, in September 1942, after which he was transferred to cover the American Army in Algeria.

Don Whitehead then covered the Allied invasion of Sicily at Gela, with the First Infantry Division, the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, and the Italian campaign.

Don Whitehead landed at Anzio in January 1944, then went to London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France.

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Don Whitehead landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, with the 16th Regiment, of the First Infantry Division, and covered the push from the beachhead, Operation Cobra at Saint-Lo, and the pursuit across France.

Don Whitehead got the first story on the Liberation of Paris and covered the US First Army's push into Belgium and into Germany, and the crossing of the Rhine River.

Don Whitehead covered the meeting of American and Russian troops on the Elbe River.

Don Whitehead won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for "The Great Deception", his account of a secret trip to the war zone by President-elect Dwight Eisenhower.

Don Whitehead was Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune, in 1956.