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| Launching ceremony of torpedo boats Tiger, Luchs, Jaguar, and Leopard at the Reichsmarinewerft facility in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 15 Mar 1928 | Adolf Hitler (left of photograph), Werner von Blomberg (looking away), and Erich Raeder (fourth from left) at Scharnhorst's launching ceremony, Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 3 Oct 1936 |
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| Aerial view of the Nordwerft (North Yard) area of the Kriegsmarinewerft shipyard, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 1939; note the two new locks, the general outline of the construction basin, one of the three dry docks, and eventually two floating dry docks | Scharnhorst in Wilhelmshaven Harbor, Germany, circa 1939 |
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| U-40 at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 1939 | Christmas holiday aboard Scharnhorst, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Dec 1939 |
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| Tender Tsingtau tending to S-boats, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, circa 1940 | Allied photograph of Kriegsmarinewerft shipyard and surrounding areas in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 30 Aug 1940; the shipyard was easily identified by the square construction basin at lower left, and the large body of water to the right was to be a new construction shipyard named Nordwerft (North Yard) |
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