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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 80976

Admiral Graf Spee
(German Armored Ship, 1936)

View of the after part of the ship's superstructure, port side, taken while she was in Montevideo harbor, Uruguay in mid-December 1939, following the Battle of the River Plate.
Note the burned-out remains of an Arado Ar 196A-1 floatplane on the ship's catapult and the German naval ensign flying from the mast mounted atop the after rangefinder.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 3 August 2006
Caption corrected 12 October 2006