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PUT THAT PISTOL DOWN. The "Prinz Eugen" is 

 stripped of her armament at the Philadelphia Navy 

 Yard prior to continuing to Bikini for a place in 

 the target array. Bottled up in Gdynia during the 

 closing years of the war, the "Eugen" was handed 

 over intact to British Naval authorities when Ger- 

 many surrendered. She made the trip to America 



with a German crew, Americans replacing the 

 Germans at Boston and Philadelphia. She was of 

 all-welded construction. In view of her elaborate 

 compartmentation she was generally comparable 

 in damage resistance to a modern U. S. heavy 

 cruiser. Former pride of Hitler's navy, she repre- 

 sented his "guns instead of butter" policy. 



