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NH 50959 Admiral Graf Spee

Photo #: NH 50959 Admiral Graf Spee
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Title: Admiral Graf Spee
Description: (German Armored Ship, 1936) Ship's Number Two 10.5cm/65 twin anti-aircraft gun mount (port side, amidships), photographed on board her wreck on 2 February 1940 by Ensign Richard D. Sampson, USN, of USS Helena (CL-50). The shield of her Number Four 15cm/55 gun is partially visible in the lower right. Her port side crane is in the upper left. 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 50959
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