SHAEF
Britishnoun
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At SHAEF, my father was promoted to lieutenant commander and assigned to G-5, the Financial Division, where he served as chief of the Foreign Exchange and Property Control Section.
From Washington Post
SHAEF, the long wartime partnership of U.S. and British armed forces, was dissolving, to be replaced by the joint control plan, wherein each power would govern its own occupation zone in its own way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Before Eisenhower left Berlin in 1948, his staff gave him a 130-piece Rosenthal set inscribed with the flaming-sword insignia of SHAEF.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But General Eisenhower's armies had not completely recovered from the plexus punch which Rundstedt had delivered in the Ardennes, despite the rosy statements of Army press-agents at SHAEF.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is proudest of the fact that President Roosevelt made him a brigadier general for his work in organizing communications for SHAEF, and he wears a gold ring with SHAEF's flaming sword insignia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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