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Walter Bedell Smith

1895 - 1961

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General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith (5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961) was a senior officer of the United States Army who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943, during World War II. He was Eisenhower's chief of staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in the campaign in Western Europe from 1944 to 1945. Smith enlisted as a private in the Indiana Army National Guard in 1911. During World War I, he served with the American Expeditionary Forces and was commissioned to second lieutenant in 1917. He was wounded in the Aisne-Marne Offensive in 1918. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Bedell Smith is the 1,446th most popular military personnel (up from 1,537th in 2019), the 5,045th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,682nd in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 1,446 out of 2,058. Before him are Maurice d'Elbée, Cândido Rondon, Marc Mitscher, Orde Wingate, Meleager, and I Gusti Ngurah Rai. After him are Constantine Angelos, Saitō Yoshitatsu, Dan Shomron, George Rooke, Tettius Julianus, and Niels Juel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 163. Before him are John J. McCloy, Corrado Alvaro, Rudolph Minkowski, Jankel Adler, Fedor Ozep, and Morris Kirksey. After him are Immanuel Velikovsky, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Earl Thomson, Oscar Hammerstein II, Nigel Bruce, and Georg Muche. Among people deceased in 1961, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 100. Before him are Maurice Tourneur, Louis Rwagasore, Max Weber, Cuno Amiet, Andrzej Munk, and H.D.. After him are Harriet Bosse, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Alexander Goldenweiser, Maneca, Ralf Törngren, and Boris Vilkitsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 5,045 out of 20,380. Before him are Cat Power (1972), Albert Brooks (1947), Alexander H. Stephens (1812), Margaret Sullavan (1909), Peggy Whitson (1960), and Susan Brownmiller (1935). After him are Edwin Drake (1819), Steve James (1952), Roy E. Disney (1930), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Don Adams (1923), and Gerard K. O'Neill (1927).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 86. Before him are Holland Smith (1882), Naomi Parker Fraley (1921), Herman Kahn (1922), Walter Short (1880), Melvin Purvis (1903), and Marc Mitscher (1887). After him are Anthony McAuliffe (1898), Walton Walker (1889), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), Courtney Hodges (1887), James Longstreet (1821), and Hal Moore (1922).

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