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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102545

Scharnhorst
(German Battleship, 1939)

View from the foretop, looking down at the base of the funnel, during the winter of 1939-40.
Note crewmen working on what appears to be a minesweeping paravane in the lower part of the image.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 22.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 

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13 March 2001