In naval history, quantity has a quality all its own. When technology and talent are equal, the larger navy usually wins. Today’s subject is the Royal Navy’s victory over panzerschiffe Admiral Graf Spee, in December 1939.

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Credits: US National Archives; US Naval Institute; Naval History & Heritage Command; World of Warships

Sources:
1. Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Vol. I, The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948).
2. Michael D. Hull, “Death of the Graf Spee,” History Warfare Network (June 2017).
3. Erich Raeder, Grand Admiral: The Personal Memoir of the Commander in Chief of the German Navy from 1935 Until His Final Break with Hitler in 1943. Henry W. Drexel, trans. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1960; reprinted Da Capo, 2001).
4. M. J. Whitley, German Capital Ships of World War Two (London: Cassell & Co., 1989).

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