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Photo #: NH 51977-A

Admiral Graf Spee
(German Armored Ship, 1936)

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 51977 for the entire page on which this photograph was mounted.

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Image posted 17 August 2006