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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102534

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

The ship's commanding officer, Kapitan zur Zee Kurt Caesar Hoffman, adresses his officers and crew from a platform by the after main battery gun turret, circa winter 1939-40.
Part of the aircraft catapult is visible atop the turret.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 18.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 March 2001