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
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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He is proudest of the fact that President Roosevelt made him a brigadier general for his work in organizing communications for SHAEF, and he wears a gold ring with SHAEF's flaming sword insignia.
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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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