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Civil War Echoes: Graf Spee 1939

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Chris Kolakowski

75 years ago today, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee fought a British squadron off the River Plate on South America’s coast. After an hour of battle, the Graf Spee’s captain, Hans Langsdorff, ran into neutral Montevideo harbor for … Continue reading →

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