The Scharnhorst, a German capital ship, aka battleship or battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, sunk by the Royal Navy battleship HMS Duke of York and her escorts during the Battle of the North Cape, 26 December 1943. From The War in Pictures, Fifth Year.

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