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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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But General Eisenhower's armies had not completely recovered from the plexus punch which Rundstedt had delivered in the Ardennes, despite the rosy statements of Army press-agents at SHAEF.

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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.

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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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