Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Admiral Graf Spee Again

SUN 8 OCT 1939
Coast Guard cutter Campbell joins U.S. passenger liner Iroquois, followed later by destroyers Davis (DD-395) and Benham (DD-397). The four ships proceed in company to New York (see 11 October).

German armored ship Admiral Graf Spee takes on board crews of British freighters Ashlea and Newton Beech in the South Atlantic and sinks the latter with demolition charges.

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