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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102528

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

Crewmen cleaning one of the ship's 283mm guns, during the winter of 1939-40.
Note sleeve around the gun's muzzle, to direct liquid waste from the cleaning into a bucket on deck below.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 10.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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12 March 2001