Photo #: NH 102526
Scharnhorst (German Battleship, 1939)
View of the ship's forward 283mm (11") triple gun turrets,
showing ice accumuluated overnight during operations in the winter
of 1939-40.
Probably taken in the Baltic Sea in January 1940.
Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen
auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 8.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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