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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the Battle of the River Plate, psychology counted as much—and perhaps more—than firepower. The British cruisers had taken a beating, but the Royal Navy’s proud ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Friedrich Adolph, the last surviving sailor in Uruguay from the famed German battleship Admiral Graf Spee that sank off this country’s coast at the outset of World War II, has ...

Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had a change of mind Sunday regarding the bronze eagle from the Third Reich's battleship Admiral Graf Spee and announced it would not be turned into a dove of ...

Friedrich Adolph, 89, the last surviving sailor in Uruguay from the famous German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, which was sunk off the South American nation’s coast early in World War II, has ...

This Christmas Inge Nedden will honor a father she never knew in a land thousands of miles from her native Germany. Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf ...

The future of a bronze eagle which once adorned the Nazi-era battleship Admiral Graf Spee remains uncertain after plans to melt it down were scrapped. Treasure hunters raised the eagle in 2006 off the ...

Why did Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee’s semi-submerged hulk still smoked ...