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| Keywords: Gneisenau in dry dock at Kiel March 1942.jpg The German battleship Gneisenau in a floating dry dock at Kiel Germany after her passage through the Channel from Brest She was bombed and torpedoed at Brest France later mined and work was in progress on her and already a good deal of the deck plating had been removed from the bows Note the snow and ice On the night of 26/27 February 1942 the RAF bombed the battleship A bomb hit the powder magazine of turret A 112 sailors died and Gneisenau was decommissioned for the rest or the war SUK11783 ca 1942-03 Australian armed forces Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia Gneisenau ship 1936 Kiel Black and white photographs | ||||
