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Sunday, 20 September 2026

Positions of major German warships according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 23 February 1942

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, MH 71390
Tirpitz anchored in the Alta Fjord, Norway between 1943-1944


Gneisenau©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Scharnhorst©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com


pocket battleship/heavy cruiser Lutzow (ex-Deutschland). Marinmuseum/DigitaltMuseum

Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruisers©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

light cruiser Nürnberg©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

An item reported that one German pocket battleship [in pencil Lutzow] and one Hipper-class cruiser were berthed in the Grimstad Fjord south of Bergen, Norway with the German battleship Tirpitz still at Trondheim. One battle cruiser believed to be the Scharnhorst was lying in the floating dock at Kiel and the cruiser Nürnberg close by berthed. The other battle cruiser [Gneisenau[ was lying at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR0423. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 75 dated 23 February 1942

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