Geboortedatum:

5 oktober 1895 (Indianapolis/Indiana, Verenigde Staten)

Overlijdensdatum:

9 augustus 1961 (Washington, D.C., Verenigde Staten)

Begraven op:

Arlington National Cemetery
Vak: 7. Graf: 8197A.

Dienstnummer:

0-10197

Nationaliteit:

Amerikaanse (1776 - heden, Republiek)

Walter Bedell Smith diende tijdens Wo2 als Chief-of-Satff bij General Eisenhower'Allied Forces Headquarters en later de Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.

Hij was in 1911 in dienst gegaan bij de Indiana National Guard en diende tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog aan het front in Frankrijk. Tussen de beide wereldoorlogen was hij Staff Officer en Instructor bij de U.S. Army Infantry School en werd Secretary bij de General Staff.

Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd Smith de Amerikaanse Ambassadeur in de Sovjet-Unie en later hoofd van de CIA. Hij ging in 1954 met pensioen als Under Secretary of State en overleed in 1961.

Bevorderingen:
1911: Private (National Guard);
27 november 1917: 2nd Lieutenant;
september 1918: 1st Lieutenant;
september 1929: Captain;
1 januari 1939: Major;
4 mei 1941: Lieutenant Colonel;
30 augustus 1941: Colonel;
2 februari 1942: Brigadier General;
januari 1944: Lieutenant General.

Loopbaan:
?: Saint Peter School;
?: Saint Paul School;
?: Oliver Perry Morton School;
?: Emmerich Manual High School;
?: National Motor Vehicle Company;
?: Butler University;
1911: Company D, 2nd Indiana Infantry, Indiana National Guard;
1917: Officer Training, Officer Candidate Training Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison;
?: Staff Indiana National Guard;
1918: Company A. 1st Battalion, 39th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division;
?: Military Intelligence Division, General Staff, U.S. Department of War;
1919: Intelligence Officer, 379th Infantry Regiment;
februari 1919: Camp Dodge, Iowa;
maart 1919: 2nd Infantry Regiment;
1922: Aide de Camp Brigadier General George Van Horn Moseley;
1925 - 1929: Bureau of the Budget;
1929: Staff 45th Infantry Regiment, Philippines;
maart 1931: U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning;
juni 1932: Instructor U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning;
1933: Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth;
? - 1937: U.S. Army War College;
september 1939: Assistant Secretary General Staff;
1 september 1941: Secretary General Staff;
23 januari 1942: Secretary Joint Chiefs of Staff;
1942: Secretary Combined Chiefs-of-Staff;
15 september 1942: Chief-of-Staff Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ);
1943: Chief-of-Staff Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF);
1946: U.S. Ambassador, Soviet Union;
maart 1949: Commanding Officer U.S. First Army;
1950: Director Central Intelligence, CIA;
14 januari 1953: Under Secretary of State;
1 oktober 1954: United Fruit Company;
?: President / Chairman Board of the Associated Missile Products Company and AMF Atomics Incorporated;
?: Vice Chairman American Machine and Foundry (AMF);
?: Director RCA and Corning Incorporated;
1955 - 1956: Consultant Special Projects Office (Disarmament), Executive Office of the President;
1955 - 1957: National Security Training Commission;
1957 - 1957: President's Citizen Advisors on the Mutual Security Program;
1956 - 1959: National War College board of consultants;
1957 - 1958: Office Defense Mobilization Special Stockpile Advisory Committee;
1958: President's Committee on Disarmament;
1958 - 1961: Chairman Advisory Council of the President's Committee on Fund Raising;
1960 - 1961: Member George C. Marshall Foundation Advisory Committee.

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