Thirty-seven German sailors were killed in the confrontation and Captain Langsdorff was wounded, along with 57 other of the Graf Spee's men. The Graf Spee was hit more than 30 times by shells ...
The German navy pocket battleship Graf von Spee took refuge in the port of Montevideo in December 1939 chased by three Royal Navy vessels. However Uruguayan authorities of the time gave the vessel ...
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 ...
Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Indischen Ozean und im Südatlantik auf Kaperfahrt und versenkte mehrere britische Frachtschiffe. Im Dezember 1939 lieferte sich ...
Der Heckadler des deutschen Panzerschiffs "Admiral Graf Spee" soll zu einer Friedenstaube umgearbeitet werden. "In Zeiten der Spaltung, der Gewalt, des Krieges in der Welt wollen wir ein Zeichen ...
In 1934 Germany named a new heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in honour of ‘the hero of Coronel’. In December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew after the Battle of the River Plate off the coast ...
Muneco G (ARG) 4-1 (9-0) won at San Isidro 5f fst in Oct beating Graf Spee (9-0) by shd, 6 ran. Larvotto (ARG) 7-1 (9-0) 5th of 7, shd behind Mopti (9-0) at San Isidro 7f fst in Dec. Baile Popular ...
Key Point: 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... The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to ...