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Training Conscripts for Hitlers's " Mosquito Navy"
Prieros
- Date
- 1935, March 27
- Location
- Prieros
- Country
- Germany
- Material
- silver gelatin print on glossy paper
- Size
- 15,2 (16,7) x 20,5 (21,5) cm
- Artist
- ACME · Unidentified Photographer
Description
verso labeled in typeset: 757719---WATCH YOUR CREDIT.. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS
SLUG. (CONSCRIPTS--FLAGS)
Prieros, Germany----Morse signal exercises are being given the young conscripts for the German navy at the new training school at Prieros. The school was inaugurated by Reich-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach and is called the "Gorch Fock Sport School for Navy-Hitler-Youth."
Publication of a navy manual showed that Germany was building a "mosquito fleet" of vessels, small and fast, in a size never before made.
(E-12-31-35)-1
AT "GORCH FOCK SCHOOL."
Stamped: International News Photos, Inc.; Central Press Association Jan 2 1936 Reference Dept.
Handwritten: 2419