 FACT: When General Walter Bedell Smith meets with General Patton  upon the latters arrival in London, Smith is wearing what is  supposed to be the S.H.A.E.F. (Supreme Headquarters Allied  Expeditionary Forces) shoulder patch. He is in fact wearing the US  Army Europe patch which came out after WW II and is almost exactly  the same in design, except the background of the S.H.A.E.F. patch is  black and the U.S. Army Europe patch has a blue background.