Word: spee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boat nailed the 5,785-ton Montevideo 300 miles from Bermuda. Of her crew of 49, two were known dead, 13 missing. Her master was Captain José Rodríguez Varela, chairman of the committee which had denied the wounded Admiral Graf Spee more than 24 hours in Montevideo (TIME. Dec. 25. 1939). He had said: "The Germans will never forgive me for this...
Uruguay, in compensation for the Montevideo, seized the Tacoma, interned Graf Spee supply ship, suspended all sailings, clamored for convoys. Rioters looted Axis stores...
...action itself the U.S. navy lost only the heavy cruiser Houston, which had carried President Roosevelt some 25,000 miles through the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, and the old (World War I) destroyer Pope. The British lost the heavy cruiser Exeter, which by skillful maneuver drove the Admiral Graf Spee to her ignoble end in 1939, and four destroyers (Encounter, Stronghold, Electra, Jupiter). The Dutch lost two light cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), two destroyers (Kortenaer and Evertsen). Australia's Navy lost its light cruiser Perth, the armed sloop Yarra. Probable loss of life: about 800 on the Houston...
...Berlin the Luftwaffe's Lance Corporal Fran eke received the Iron Cross for sinking her. She was then about to help track down the Admiral Graf Spee off South America...
...Luck has contributed a spectacular share to the naval encounters of World War II. When the British knocked out the fire-control tower of the Admiral Graf Spee and when the Germans dropped a bomb smack down on the plane elevator shaft of the Illustrious, something more than skill was involved. Considering the fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share...