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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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12 March 2001