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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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28 February 2001