Editing Geoffrey Keyes (section)

===Postwar===
After the war Keyes commanded the Seventh Army from 8 September 1945 until its deactivation on 31 March 1946. In December 1945 he was by his friend George S. Patton's side when the latter died. This was followed by command of the [[United States Third Army]], Patton's former command, from 1946 to 1947. In 1947, Keyes was appointed United States High Commissioner on the Allied Council for Austria. He served as Director, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG) from 1951 to 1954.

Keyes retired from the army in 1954, after 41 years of service. He died on September 17, 1967, at [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center|Walter Reed Hospital]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], just a few weeks short of his 79th birthday.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Geoffrey Keyes, Combat Leader; Commanding General of 2d Corps in Italy Dies at 78 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/09/19/93873795.pdf |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=September 19, 1967 |access-date=August 10, 2011 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He is interred at [[West Point Cemetery]].