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NH 50958 Admiral Graf Spee

Photo #: NH 50958 Admiral Graf Spee
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Title: Admiral Graf Spee
Description: (German Armored Ship, 1936) Ship's Number Four 15cm/55 gun mount (second gun in the forward port side group), photographed on board her wreck on 2 February 1940 by Ensign Richard D. Sampson, USN, of USS Helena (CL-50). Twin gun barrels in the upper left are those of the ship's Number Two 10.5cm/65 anti-aircraft gun mount. Admiral Graf Spee had been scuttled in December 1939 in the River Plate, near Montevideo, Uruguay. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 50958
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