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Walter Bedell Smith
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
. Beginning in the next year, he was Eisenhower's chief-of-staff at the
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
(SHAEF) in
Western Europe
from 1944 through 1945.
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