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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 101567

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

View looking down from battleship's main deck, forward, as she steams through ice in the Baltic Sea during the winter of 1939-40, probably in January 1940. The western Baltic ice was very heavy into February 1940.
The ship's stem runs horizontally through the middle of the view, from left-center to the right edge.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 7.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 

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28 February 2001