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SHAEF

British  
/ ʃeɪf /

noun

  1. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces

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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.

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In the thankless task of covering SHAEF, he frequently clashed with the censors.

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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.

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He cavalierly announced that re porters had been present at the surrender "by the courtesy of SHAEF."

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He went into the Army in 1942 as a 2nd lieutenant, emerged three years later a colonel and secretary to the General Staff at SHAEF.

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