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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 83981
Norway Campaign, 1940
German battleship Scharnhorst firing her forward 283mm
guns, during the engagement with the British aircraft carrier
Glorious and her escorts, 8 June 1940.
Photographed from the battleship Gneisenau.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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