It was Dec. 13, 1939, and all German sailor Freiderich ”Fritz” Adolf could think of was going home to Frankfurt for Christmas. The 20-year-old had been at sea for four months in his first long voyage, ...

Bound, in his words, will tell us how the mighty Scharnhorst was finally discovered Mensun Bound, the leader of the mission which discovered the flagship of Admiral Graf von Spee's squadron, was born ...

The telemeter was recovered first, in 2004, a huge piece weighing 27 tons, which at the time was state of the art technology for firing accurately heavy guns The Graf Spee was scuttled in December ...

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MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate. The pilot ...

World War II got off to a bad start for the British. About two weeks after Poland surrendered to Germany at the end of September 1939 — succumbing to a month of the Nazi blitzkrieg — the British ...

In 1791 Harvard Final Clubs began what would become a storied history with the establishment of the Porcellian (P.C); the first of what would become eight, illustrious, all-male, Harvard Final Clubs.

Bibian Mentel-Spee died in March 2021 at the age of 48 Bibian Mentel-Spee was a snowboarder. She loved the feeling of being in the mountains, the camaraderie of the riders, the thrill of competing.