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HMS Prince of Wales (British Battleship, 1941)
Photographed in 1941, sometime prior to her 24 May 1941 engagement with the German battleship Bismarck. She is lowering a Supermarine "Walrus" amphibian aircraft over the side.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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