River Plate, Battle of the, 1939
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Name (Hebrew)
קרב ריבר פלייט, 1939
Name (Latin)
River Plate, Battle of the, 1939
Name (Arabic)
معركة نهر لابلاتا، 1939
Other forms of name
Plate, Battle of the, 1939
Punta del Este, Battle of, 1939
nne Rio de la Plata, Battle of the, 1939
nne Rio de la Plata, Battle of the, Uruguay, 1939
Coordinates
-47 -47 -32 -32 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Atlantic Ocean
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q713529
Library of congress:
sh 85114155
Sources of Information
- Britannica Micro.:v. 5, p. 404 (Graf Spee: after sinking several merchant ships in the Battle of the Atlantic, it was sighted on Dec. 13, 1939, off the Rio de la Plata estuary by a british search group. At 6:14 Harwood's three ships attacked ...)
- LC database, May 20, 2002(battle of the River Plate; battle of the Plate)
- Oxford companion to WWII, 1995(River Plate, battle of)
- Sanderson, M. Sea battles, 1975(River Plate; 300 mi. east of the Plate estuary)