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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 69731

Battle of the Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941


British battleship Prince of Wales (smoke column in left center) under fire from the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, with smoke from the sunken HMS Hood at right. Splashes to the right are shells from Prince of Wales that fell well short of the German ships.
Photographed from Prinz Eugen.

Copied from the report of officers of Prinz Eugen, with identification by her Gunnery Officer, Paul S. Schmalenbach, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 December 2000