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Allen, Leven, MG USA(Ret).
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MG Allen was the Chief of Staff for the fake1st Army Group in Great Britain from 1943 - July 1944.
He then became the 12th Army Group Chief of Staff in the ETO.
He was also the 8th Army Chief of Staff in Japan and Korea in 1950 - 1951.
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The War Department existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment (NME), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949.