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Photo #: NH 102548

Wilhelmshaven, Germany


View looking north-northeast from within the icy Hipperhafen, looking toward six German destroyers tied up at the Gazellebruke ("Gazelle pier", later renamed "Commodore Bonte Quay") during the winter of 1939-40.
Photographed from the battleship Scharnhorst. The top of a floating crane can be seen in the shipbuilding basin in the right center distance.

Copied from the contemporary German photo album "Meine Kriegserinnerungen auf Schlachtschiff Scharnhorst", page 21.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 March 2001