Montevideo, Uraguay – Experts working to recover parts of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, sunk 66 years ago in Montevideo Bay, successfully retrieved from the bottom of the River Plate ...
MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate. The pilot ...
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The Pocket Battleship That Terrorized the Atlantic
December 1939. The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee stalked the South Atlantic, sinking nine Allied ships in three ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the Battle of the River Plate, psychology counted as much—and perhaps more—than firepower. The British cruisers had taken a beating, but the Royal Navy’s proud ...
It was Dec. 13, 1939, and all German sailor Freiderich ”Fritz” Adolf could think of was going home to Frankfurt for Christmas. The 20-year-old had been at sea for four months in his first long voyage, ...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Uruguay's government is asking political leaders what it should do with a Nazi bronze eagle recovered off its coast in 2006. The eagle was part of the German battleship Admiral ...
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The Pocket Battleship That Terrorized the Atlantic, And Died by Its Own Hand
December 1939. In the South Atlantic, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee hunts Allied merchant ships with deadly ...
The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. Within six months, the Bismarck would join ...
The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the ...
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