NATO landing exercise in the Dardanelles, 1957

By Joe Gromelski
Published: December 28, 2011

Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Turkey, September 30, 1957: Marines land on the shores of the Dardanelles — the strategically-important strait between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea — during the NATO exercise "Deep Water."

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