Don Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia – January 12, 1981) was an American journalist.
He landed at Anzio in January 1944, then went to London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France.
He landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day (June 6, 1944), with the 16th Regiment, of the First Infantry Division, and covered the push from the beachhead, Operation Cobra at Saint-Lô, and the pursuit across France.
He got the first story on the Liberation of Paris and covered the U.S. First Army's push into Belgium and into Germany, and the crossing of the Rhine River.
[4] He 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.