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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102544

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

The ship's forward control tower, with a 10.5-meter rangefinder at its top, seen from abreast the funnel looking forward. Photographed at Kiel or Wilhelmshaven during the winter of 1939-40.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 14.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 March 2001