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NH 51979-A Admiral Graf Spee

Photo #: NH 51979-A  Admiral Graf Spee
Title: Admiral Graf Spee
Description: (German Armored Ship, 1936) Photograph of the mounting for a 20mm machine gun, on the upper platform of the ship's forward superstructure. Taken on board the ship's wreck in the River Plate, near Montevideo, Uruguay, where she had been scuttled in December 1939. Photographed on 2 February 1940 by Ensign Richard D. Sampson, USN, for an intelligence report prepared by USS Helena (CL-50) during her shakedown cruise to South America. See Photo # NH 51979 for the entire page on which this photograph was mounted. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 51979-A
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