Richard Lee Whitteker

Vietnam War
Unit480th Tactical Fighter Squadron
RankCaptain U.S. Air Force
Entered Service FromEaston Pennsylvania
Date of DeathMarch 27 1968
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
A
Notes
Captain Whitteker was a member of 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron. On March 27, 1968, he was the pilot of a McDonnell Douglas Phantom II Fighter (F-4D) flying over North Vietnam when his aircraft crashed. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.