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Photo #: NH 51982-A

Admiral Graf Spee
(German Armored Ship, 1936)

Photograph of the ship's forward broadside (15cm gun) director, with a USS Helena crew member sitting on it. View looks aft, with the forward superstructure in the background. The director has partially collapsed to starboard.
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 51982 for the entire page on which this photograph was mounted.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 17 August 2006