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Time Remaining To Bid: 64 days 19 hours 4 mins. 14 secs.
Item Will Close On Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5935932

Category: L53 - Estate & Personal Collections

LT.GENERAL ENNIS WHITEHEAD PERSONAL ESTATE GROUP

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Ennis Whitehead is another of the largely forgotten figures of American airpower, although he played an important role at an important time. Enlisting in the Army in 1917, Whitehead quickly joined the Air Service, won his wings, and was sent to France. He was an excellent pilot, but as a result he was made a test pilot and thus saw no combat. After the war, his reputation as an aviator grew within the small coterie of military airmen: he participated in Billy Mitchell`s bombing tests against the Ostfriesland in 1921, joined the Pan American flight of 1927-where he narrowly escaped death in a midair collision over Buenos Aires-and set a speed record from Miami to Panama in 1931. When war came, he was sent to the Pacific where he became George Kenney`s strong right arm. Whitehead stayed in Asia for the next seven years, becoming commander of the Fifth Air Force in 1944; and after Kenney left the theater, he took over the Far East Air Forces. Returning to the States in 1949, Whitehead commanded the shortlived Continental Air Command and then the Air Defense Command until his retirement in 1951. For more info. go to http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/white.html

Group includes pair of oak leaves, 2-different `US` collar devices & WWII ribbon bar with star devices. From the personal estate of Lt.General Whitehead.  

For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm  Condition: 7

Opening Bid Amount: $20

Current Bid Amount: $20 Total Bids: 1
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