Walter Bedell Beetle Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior U.S. Army general who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief- of-staff at Allied Forces Headquarters during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. Beginning in the next year he was General Eisenhower’s chief-of-staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Western Europe from 1944 through 1945.Smith enlisted as a private in the Indiana National Guard in 1911.
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active years end date
1948-12-25, 1953-02-09, 1954-10-01
active years start date
1946-04-03, 1950-10-07, 1953-02-09
award
Bronze Star Medal, Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army), Legion of Merit, Distinguished Service Medal (US Navy), National Security Medal
battle
Operation Overlord, Allied invasion of Italy, Western Allied invasion of Germany, Battle of the Bulge, World War II, Second Battle of the Marne, Operation Torch, Allied invasion of Sicily, World War I, Tunisia Campaign, Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
birth date
1895-10-05
country
Soviet Union
death date
1961-08-09
military branch
United States Army
military command
U.S. First Army
military rank
General (United States)
president
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman
religion
Catholic Church
service end year
1953-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
service start year
1911-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
successor
Allen Dulles, Alan Goodrich Kirk, Herbert Hoover Jr.
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