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  • Exercise Mainbrace
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  • Exercise Mainbrace was the first large-scale naval exercise undertaken by the newly established Allied Command Atlantic (ACLANT), one of the two principal military commands of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It was part of a series of NATO exercises jointly commanded by Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, USN, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Matthew B. Ridgeway, U.S. Army, during the Fall of 1952.
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Date
  • --09-14
Name
  • Exercise Mainbrace
Type
  • NATO combined naval training exercises
Caption
  • NATO Northern Flank
Outcome
  • Exercise successfully executed.
executed by
  • Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, RN
Objective
  • Deployment of NATO anti-submarine warfare forces, aircraft carrier strike forces, and supply convoys
Location
  • North Atlantic Ocean, GIUK Gap, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, North Sea, Jutland Peninsula, and Baltic Sea
abstract
  • Exercise Mainbrace was the first large-scale naval exercise undertaken by the newly established Allied Command Atlantic (ACLANT), one of the two principal military commands of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It was part of a series of NATO exercises jointly commanded by Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, USN, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Matthew B. Ridgeway, U.S. Army, during the Fall of 1952.