Photo #: NH 97538
Gneisenau (German Battleship, 1938)
View of the ship's forward two triple 283mm (11") gun turrets,
with forecastle and capstans in the foreground, circa later 1939
or 1940.
The battleship Scharnhorst is in the left distance. She
has been refitted with a "clipper" bow.
Fine screen halftone reproduction, published in the contemporary
German booklet "Deutsche Seemacht".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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