Photo #: NH 101564
Scharnhorst (German Battleship, 1939)
A crewman poses on the battleship's deck under ice-coated 11-inch
gun barrels during the winter of 1939-40, probably in January
1940 in the Baltic Sea.
The original caption translates "Menacing Cold".
Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen
auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 6.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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