North Atlantic Ocean, GIUK Gap, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, North Sea, Jutland Peninsula, and Baltic Sea
Planned by
SACLANT & SACEUR
Objective
Deployment of NATO anti-submarine warfare forces, aircraft carrier strike forces, and supply convoys
Date
September 14–25, 1952
Executed by
Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, RN (CINCNORTH)
Outcome
Exercise successfully executed
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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