Army & Navy: PRIVATE OF SPAHIS

Hardbitten French professionals, returned to action and glory in Tunisia, had seen no finer staff officer than Major General Walter B. Smith (right), Eisenhower’s chief of staff. Their recognition: induction in the famed 2nd Spahis as an honorary first class private. General de Goutel laid the colonial cavalry regiment’s scarlet burnous on “Beedle” Smith’s shoulders, pinned the outfit’s medal badge on his O.D. blouse.