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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97504

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939-1943)

In a German port with her crew manning the rail, circa late 1939, after she had been fitted with a "clipper" bow.
This is a halftone image, clipped by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence from the contemporary German booklet "Deutsche Seemacht". The picture was published on two pages, and has been pieced together at right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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8 March 2001