Admiral Scheerafter Allied bombing at Kiel.

Admiral Scheerafter Allied bombing at Kiel. The 10,000-ton "Admiral Scheer"a pocket battleship is shown capsized after allied air raid on Kiel. The Eight U.S. Air Force and the Britain RAF made 20 bombing attacks on Kiel, dropping nearly 30,000 pounds of explosive and incendiaries from May, 1943, to March 1945. Kiel, the pricipal manufacturing center for German U-boats and the chief port on the Battle, was captured April 28, 1945, by Allied ground forces.