High line manoeuvre during NATO exercise in North Sea
US destroyer USS McCloy DE-1038 and Dutch destroyer Zeeland D-809 (our picture) carry out a high line manoeuvre in March 1968 during the NATO exercise Matchmaker III in the North Sea. Crew and material are exchanged in deep sea during a high line manoeuvre. A joint maritime task force was tested under the name Matchmaker by the NATO from 1965 to 1967. Troops from the Netherlands, the USA, Great Britain and Germany did participate. The Standing Naval Force Atlantic (SNFL) emerged from Matchmaker, which was an precursor of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1)
Picture No
10648742
Media ID
45215793
Size
5452px x 3996px
(2.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / picture alliance / Egon Steiner
Date
01-Mar-67
