Exercise Verity was a 1949 multilateral naval training exercise involving 60 warships from the British, French, and Dutch navies for the newly formed Western Union, the precursor to the Western European Union (WEU). A contemporary newsreel described this exercise as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland."
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| - Exercise Verity was a 1949 multilateral naval training exercise involving 60 warships from the British, French, and Dutch navies for the newly formed Western Union, the precursor to the Western European Union (WEU). A contemporary newsreel described this exercise as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland."
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| - Multi-lateral naval training exercises
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| - Deployment of anti-submarine, aircraft carrier, naval bombardment, convoy escort, minesweeping, and motor torpedo boat attack forces
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| - Exercise Verity was a 1949 multilateral naval training exercise involving 60 warships from the British, French, and Dutch navies for the newly formed Western Union, the precursor to the Western European Union (WEU). A contemporary newsreel described this exercise as involving "the greatest assembly of warships since the Battle of Jutland."
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