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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 101571

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

View looking aft on the foredeck, with anchor handling gear in the foreground and two triple 283mm gun turrets beyond. Taken during the winter of 1939-40, at Kiel.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 9.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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12 March 2001