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SHAEF

British  
/ ʃeɪf /

noun

  1. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Since then SHAEF's 100 newsmen's chief gripe has been that stories cleared elsewhere, published, and therefore no longer involved in "military security" still could not be sent from SHAEF.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He was whisked immediately to the super-secret second-floor communications room, which has direct radio-telephone connections to London, SHAEF, and to field operations.

From Time Magazine Archive

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