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...thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...
...personal column of the London Daily Telegraph, Lady Harwood, wife of newly promoted Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, pocketer of the Admiral Graf Spee, ". . . wishes to express her sincere sympathy with relatives of the officers and men who fell in the gallant action in La Plata...
...Achilles and Exeter were deployed and sheering in. Spee. had to train both big turrets on Exeter, and just keep the others off with 5.93. The engagement settled down to a running dogfight. Tactic of the Britons, directed from the Exeter by Commodore Henry H. Harwood, Commander of the South American Division of the Royal Navy since 1936, was one the Italians have developed: Using curtains of smoke, the cruisers drove through from behind, showed themselves just long enough to get off a salvo, and then plunged back into the screen. This meant that Spee never knew where to look...
Aboard the Exeter as she limped off toward the British base of Port Stanley* in the Falkland Islands, 1,000 miles to the south, were 61 dead men, and 23 wounded. Commodore Harwood was notified by radio that he had been knighted and promoted to Rear Admiral. Ajax and Achilles got off comparatively lightly: between them only eleven dead and eight wounded...
Other outstanding backs of the year were Bob Fulton of Winthrop, Chuck Griffith of Kirkland, Don Brew of Eliot, Hugh Harwood of Dunster, Vint Freedley of Leverett, Johnny Felmeth of Lowell, and Jack Bronston of the Dormitory team...