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NH 51990-A Admiral Graf Spee

Photo #: NH 51990-A Admiral Graf Spee
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Title: Admiral Graf Spee
Description: (German Armored Ship, 1936) Photograph looking aft, on the port side, from the ship's forward superstructure. The searchlight platform on her partially collapsed smokestack is seen at left, with a mounting for a 20mm machine gun at the platform's outboard edge, just beyond the searchlight. At right is the broadside director (for the ship's port battery of 15cm guns). In the center, between platform and director, is the end of the aircraft catapult. 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. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 51990-A
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