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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97503

U-47
(German Submarine, 1938-1941)

Arrives at Kiel, Germany, on 23 October 1939, with her crew at quarters. The battleship Scharnhorst is in the background.
U-47 was returning from the mission in which she sank the British battleship Royal Oak inside Scapa Flow on 14 October.
This is a halftone image, copied from a contemporary publication.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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8 March 2001