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 ...
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, ...
An Uruguayan worker directs the 2006 salvage of the eagle from the World War II German warship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo. (Marcelo Hernandez/AP) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A court in Uruguay ruled ...
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 ...
Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital ...
A salvage team used a floating crane to raise a key piece of a sunken German battleship Wednesday, lifting a 27-ton part of the command tower after weeks of failed attempts. Retired Navy Capt. Alberto ...
The bronze eagle was retrieved from the Graf Spee in 2006 Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship ...
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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 precision. She sinks nine in three months before being cornered at the ...
Oscar-nominated “City of God” DoP Cesar Charlone, who went on to direct “3%,” South America’s first Netflix series, is set to co-direct and serve as cinematographer on “Graf Spee,” a six-part human ...
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