December 1939. In the South Atlantic, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee hunts Allied merchant ships with deadly ...
On December 13th, 1939, the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee arrived at the estuary of the River Plate with the aim of hunting down British merchant ships. However, these plans were doomed to fail as ...
Captain Hans Langsdorff knew there was no way out. For the last three months, the Kriegsmarine’s most successful commerce raider to date, Graf Spee, had been devastating the Atlantic with gallantry, ...
New details of Nazi fifth column activities in Argentina are revealed in the press. A German general, Niederfuhr, recently arrived here to conduct these activities, according to newspapers. There also ...
Abstract: The Admiral Graf Spee was a German Heavy Cruiser (sometimes known as a Pocket Battleship), which took part in the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December 1939. This was the first proper ...
Why did Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee’s semi-submerged hulk still smoked ...
Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding ...