The Only Two Men in U.S. History to Go From Private to Four-Star General

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About the video: Walter Krueger and Walter Bedell Smith both rose from private to four-star general, the only two U.S.

Army officers to complete that climb in the era that shaped modern American military power. Krueger commanded Sixth Army across the Pacific from 1943 to 1945, leading the campaigns that retook the Philippines and prepared the invasion of Japan, while Bedell Smith served as Eisenhower's chief of staff in Europe and signed Germany's surrender at Reims. Both men entered service as enlisted soldiers, passed competitive examinations to earn commissions as second lieutenants, and spent decades in the interwar Army mastering staff work, tactics, and planning. Krueger translated German military theory, commanded divisions and corps in peacetime, and ran Third Army through the Louisiana Maneuvers before MacArthur requested him for the Pacific. Bedell Smith built his reputation on procedural precision and became the administrative architect of coalition warfare, managing Eisenhower's headquarters through North Africa, Italy, and the invasion of Europe. Their parallel careers illuminate how the Army's commissioning-by-examination system opened a legal path from the enlisted ranks to the officer corps, but personal sponsorship from senior commanders determined who reached the top.