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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Bedell Smith has received more than 876,648 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Walter Bedell Smith is the 1,536th most popular military personnel (down from 1,378th in 2019), the 4,682nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,101st in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 1,536 out of 2,058. Before him are Herman Kahn, Henri Saint Cyr, Nina Lobkovskaya, Adolphe Niel, Pedro Teixeira, and Henry III, Count of Bar. After him are Endel Puusepp, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Ivan Sidorenko, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, and Ingvar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 167. Before him are Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Nigel Bruce, Vsevolod Ivanov, Gustav von Wangenheim, and Josef Uridil. After him are Maksym Rylsky, Ruth Fischer, Gabriel Chevallier, William Tubman, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Brian Horrocks. Among people deceased in 1961, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 104. Before him are Ben Adams, Maurice Tourneur, Govind Ballabh Pant, Leonhard Frank, Mazo de la Roche, and Morris Travers. After him are Kateryna Bilokur, Susanna M. Salter, Ruth Fischer, Joseph Orbeli, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, and Ida Siekmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 4,682 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Kors (1959), Robert Z'Dar (1950), Ryan Murphy (1965), Charles Best (1899), Carey Lowell (1961), and Otto Warmbier (1994). After him are Richard Yates (1926), Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Estelle Harris (1928), Seymour Cray (1925), and Michael Shannon (1974).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Walter Bedell Smith ranks 79. Before him are William Guarnere (1923), Nathanael Greene (1742), Alvin York (1887), Courtney Hodges (1887), Braxton Bragg (1817), and Herman Kahn (1922). After him are Benjamin Briggs (1835), Melvin Purvis (1903), Joseph Hooker (1814), William D. Leahy (1875), Eugene Sledge (1923), and Mark Milley (1958).

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