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    US Marines during NATO maneuvers.
    Location: Turkeyicon
    Date taken: September 1957
    Photographer: James Whitmore




    Operation Strikeback was a major naval exercise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that took place over a ten-day period in September 1957.

    As part of a series of exercises to simulate an all-out Sovieticon attack on NATO, Operation Strikeback was tasked with two objectives. Its initial objective was the deployment of NATO's naval forces (designated the "Blue Fleet") against other NATO forces attempting to simulate an "enemy" navy that featured a large number of submarines (designated the "Orange Fleet"). Its other objective was to have the Blue Fleet execute carrier-based air strikes against "enemy" formations and emplacements along NATO's northern flank in Norway.

    Operation Strikeback involved over 200 warships, 650 aircraft, and 75,000 personnel from the United Statesicon Navy, the United Kingdomicon's Royal Navy, the Royal Canadianicon Navy, the Frenchicon Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy, and the Royal Norwegianicon Navy. As the largest peacetime naval operation up to that time, military analyst Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times characterized Operation Strikeback as "constituting the strongest striking fleet assembled since World War II

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    Photographer: James Whitmore, must be the other one.....Frank

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