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Is there some aspect of SHAPE, ACO or NATO history that particularly interests you? You may find it below in some of the questions that have most frequently been posed to the SHAPE Historians over the years.As we have mentioned elsewhere, we have tried to make this information as accurate as possible, but the answers provided are the views solely of the SHAPE Historians and do not necessarily represent official positions of SHAPE or NATO.

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Jan 15 2010

that SACEUR had a Russian general as his Deputy at SHAPE in the 1990s?

Jan 15 2010

why there is a piece of the Berlin Wall at SHAPE?

Jan 15 2010

how many SACEURs have not been U.S. Army generals?

Jan 15 2010

how many SACEURs continued their military careers in other posts after leaving SHAPE?

Jan 15 2010

that the first combat action by NATO forces took place in 1994, 45 years after the creation of the Alliance?

Jan 15 2010

that NATO played a very active supporting role during the first Gulf Crisis and War in 1990-1991?

Jan 15 2010

that during the first four decades of NATO's existence the Alliance carried out no military operations?

Jan 15 2010

how long it took to build the new SHAPE Headquarters in Casteau, Belgium, in 1966-1967?

Jan 15 2010

why SHAPE moved from France to Belgium in 1967?

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