Photo #: NH 59661
Admiral Graf Spee (German Armored Ship, 1936)
View of the ship's port side, amidships, taken while she was
at anchor 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
atop the ship's catapult, 15cm broadside guns, boat and aircraft
crane, secondary gun battery director (at left), and damage to
her side plating from shell fragments.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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