“Kitten” Smith earned his name at Camp Currie when Corporal Jones criticized his hand-to-hand combat skills, claiming a kitten would punch harder. He goes to Seattle with Johnnie and Pat Leivy, where they end up in a fistfight with some angry merchant marines. Smith is sent with Johnnie and Al Jenkins to Willie’s Wildcats after graduation, but he dies in the launch tube waiting for his first official drop when the Valley Forge and the Ypres collide.