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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102536

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

View of the after 283mm (11") triple gun turret and its aircraft catapult, circa winter 1939-40. View looks forward, with the tripod mainmast and naval ensign in the background.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 14.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 March 2001