Battle of River Plate - Report from USN Chief of Naval Operations

[Byron Angel]

Detailed action account; also includes official Uruguayan Navy report of their inspection of Graf Spee. Numerous diagrams & photographs.

Go here - https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital ... 2626/rec/5

Enjoy.

Byron

[R Leonard]

errr . . . "Small Unit Tactics - Artillery Part II" is what comes up.

Try https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital ... 4347/rec/2

[Byron Angel]

Sorry about that.
I’ll take care of that very shortly.

Byron

[Byron Angel]

OK. Sorry about the confusion .....

Step 1
Go here - https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital ... p4013coll8
(The Ike Skelton Combined Arms Digital Research Library - WW2 Operational Documents section)

Step 2
Find Search Box in upper RH corner of screen and type in "GRAF SPEE"

Step 3
Look for "Battle of the River Plate between the British cruisers Ajax, Achilles, & Exeter and the German ship Admiral Graf Spee".
Click on it

Step 4
The cover of the document will show up on your screen along with several buttons in the upper RH corner. Press the one with the vertically downward pointing black arrow to D/L the document to your PC as a PDF.


Byron

[dunmunro]

A very good read. Thanks.

[Byron Angel]

A very good read. Thanks.

Hi dunmunro,
I'm glad you found it interesting. I was shocked to run across it in what is essentially a US Army library archive.

Happy Xmas / Byron

[Kev D]

Yes, thanks very much for posting that link Byron!
And a few photos of 'The Spee' that I hadn't seen before there too. Cool!

[OpanaPointer]

We anchored very near to where GS went down back then. Foggy as poo-poo.

[marcelo_malara]

We anchored very near to where GS went down back then. Foggy as poo-poo.

Hi! When was that? In what ship?

[OpanaPointer]

Early '70s. It was on a fam ride on USS MacDonough, Unitas* #something or other. Been a while.

*Unitas was the USN training with South American navies. We went counterclockwise around the continent.

[Byron Angel]

Early '70s. It was on a fam ride on USS MacDonough, Unitas* #something or other. Been a while.

*Unitas was the USN training with South American navies. We went counterclockwise around the continent.

I’m jealous.

Byron

[OpanaPointer]

Ticked another continent off my wish list. I was a most ardent tourist everywhere I went. Daibutsu (鎌倉大仏) was amazing.

[marcelo_malara]

Early '70s. It was on a fam ride on USS MacDonough, Unitas* #something or other. Been a while.

*Unitas was the USN training with South American navies. We went counterclockwise around the continent.

Unitas, yes, I know. Was then something left of the wreck above water?

[marcelo_malara]

Early '70s. It was on a fam ride on USS MacDonough, Unitas* #something or other. Been a while.

*Unitas was the USN training with South American navies. We went counterclockwise around the continent.

Unitas, yes, I know. Was then something remaining of the wreck above water?

[OpanaPointer]

The wreck was scavenged in the 1950s, I think. It was a hazard to navigation according to ComSoLant's XO.