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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He cavalierly announced that re porters had been present at the surrender "by the courtesy of SHAEF."
From Time Magazine Archive
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OWI's Director Elmer Davis, back from SHAEF, took the view that the free, contentious press of the U.S. and Britain would be a bad thing for the Germans to get a look at.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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