Marine Landing: Maneuvers in Dardenelles, Turkey

At the break of dawn, 30 September 1957, U. S. Marines waded ashore from their landing craft after having departed from U. S. Navy ships of the Sixth Fleet, assigned to the Mediterranean area. The NATO air, sea, and land maneuver, named Operation Deep Water, took place at the same area as the ill-fated amphibious landing made by the British in 1915, during World War I, a plan highly touted by Winston Churchill to try and open a route from the Mediterranean to Russia.

Photo © 1957 Stars and Stripes