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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