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Graf Spee Waits East of Bahia

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1939

Hans Langsdorff11 September 1939

South Atlantic · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Graf Spee begins an extended wait roughly 900 miles east of Bahia while Berlin withholds permission to attack Allied merchant shipping.

Names involved

Hans Langsdorff

Provenance

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