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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.

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

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When Eisenhower was boss of SHAEF, he dubbed Colonel Oreste Pinto "the greatest living authority on security."

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Both were still operating under SHAEF, in which British and U.S. officers were intermixed.

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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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