Photo #: NH 102540
Schlesien (German battleship, 1908
Photographed from the battleship Scharnhorst during gunnery
exercises in the western Baltic in late January 1940. The ice
in the area near Kiel, Germany, was unusually thick that winter.
Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen
auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 20.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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