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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59662

Admiral Graf Spee
(German Armored Ship, 1936)

View of the ship's forward superstructure, starboard side, taken while she was off Montevideo, Uruguay in mid-December 1939, following the Battle of the River Plate.
Note the shell fragment scars in her side plating, and the antenna of a "Seetakt" radar mounted on the face of her main battery gun director (top center).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 2 August 2006