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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 101561
Scharnhorst (German Battleship, 1939)
View of the ship's icy foredeck, 11-inch gun turrets and superstructure,
taken during the winter of 1939-40, probably in the Baltic Sea
in January 1940.
Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen
auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 6.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 98KB; 515 x 765 pixels
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