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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97507

German 150mm twin gun turret


The port forward 150mm turret of the battleship Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, seen from ahead, circa 1939-40. Single-mounted 150mm guns are beyond, at main deck level, with 105mm twin anti-aircraft guns above.
This is a halftone image, clipped by the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence from the contemporary German booklet "Deutsche Seemacht".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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8 March 2001