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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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28 February 2001