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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