Walter Bedell Smith
✓ Source-basedfallingUnited States Army general and Director of Central Intelligence (1895-1961)
General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith 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.
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Allied leaders in the Allied invasion of Sicily. General Dwight Eisenhower meets in North Africa with (foreground from left to right): Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, and (top row): Mr. Harold Macmillan, Major General W. Bedell Smith, and several unidentified British officers
Secret Emissaries to Lisbon (left to right) Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, Generale di Brigata Giuseppe Castellano, Smith, and Consul Franco Montanari, an official from the Italian Foreign Office
Smith and his wartime secretary, Ruth Briggs, who was also Smith's executive assistant when he was a postwar ambassador to the Soviet Union
Meeting of the Allied Supreme Command in February 1944. Left to right:Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Lieutenant General Bedell Smith
Senior Allied commanders at Reims shortly after the German surrender. Present are (left to right): Major General Ivan Susloparov, Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan, Lieutenant General Bedell Smith, Captain Kay Summersby (obscured), Captain Harry C. Butcher, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder
Smith as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1946-48
Smith (center) with top CIA leaders, including outgoing Director of Central Intelligence Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (to Smith's left, in the light suit), 7 October 1950Awards 19
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Curtis LeMayAlso won Croix de guerre 1940-1945 (Belgium)
Gaston ThornAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown
Georges Ernest BoulangerAlso won Grand Cordon of the order of Nichan Iftikhar
Piotr JaroszewiczAlso won Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class
Kim GevaertAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
John Paul StevensAlso won World War II Victory MedalAbout this person
General Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith 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.
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