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SHAEF

/ 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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Bernard D. Bernstein, deputy chief of SHAEF’s Financial Division and my father’s commanding officer, was ordered to take charge of recovering the treasure.

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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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On April 8, U.S. soldiers and members of SHAEF’s Financial Division entered the Merkers mine and found what was later referred to as Room No. 8, a 75-by-150-foot vault-like room that contained more than 7,000 bags and containers, stacked knee-high.

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Incredibly, Winter was able to use the reins to keep the bit in Shaef's mouth and steer him through the rest of the race to finish second.

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This race is chiefly notable for the amazing horsemanship of a young Fred Winter on Shaef, whose bridle came adrift at the water jump on the first circuit.

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