Archibald Nye

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Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, KCB, KBE, MC was a senior British Army officer who served in both world wars and was Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946 during the Second World War.

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Archibald Nye: Operation Mincemeat, 1943
The main document was a personal letter from Lieutenant General Sir Archibald Nye, the vice chief of the Imperial General Staff – who had a deep knowledge of ongoing military operations – to General Sir Harold Alexander, commander of the Anglo-American 18th Army Group in Algeria and Tunisia under General Eisenhower.
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