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Admiral Graf Spee's Number Four 15cm/55 gun mount, second gun in the forward port side group, 2 Feb 1940	Admiral Graf Spee's Number Two 10.5cm/65 twin anti-aircraft gun mount, port side, amidships, 2 Feb 1940	Admiral Graf Spee's open control position at the forward end of the superstructure, 2 Feb 1940; note target designators, directors, rangekeepers, ship speed and course indicators, ready lights, etc.	Admiral Graf Spee's port side search platform, 2 Feb 1940; note search light, gun director, and a 20mm machine gun mounting in background

Admiral Graf Spee's starboard Number One 105mm/65 anti-aircraft gun mount, 2 Feb 1940	Admiral Graf Spee's wreck in the River Plate, just off Montevideo, Uruguay, 2 Feb 1940	At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory in Australia, employees move a partly constructed Wirraway aircraft to a more advanced position in the assembly line, 2 Feb 1940	Base of Admiral Graf Spee's forward main battery range finder, atop the superstructure, 2 Feb 1940

Interior of Admiral Graf Spee's forward superstructure tower, damaged due to a direct shell hit during the Battle of the River Plate, photographed 2 Feb 1940	Japanese Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai reading a memo in the prime minister's seat in the Parliament chamber, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Feb 1940	Looking aft from atop Admiral Graf Spee's forward superstructure tower, showing the partially collapsed smokestack structure, aircraft catapult, and after port side Number Eight 150mm gun, 2 Feb 1940	The Lutheran church of Sortavala, Finland on fire after Soviet bombing, 2 Feb 1940, photo 1 of 2

The Lutheran church of Sortavala, Finland on fire after Soviet bombing, 2 Feb 1940, photo 2 of 2	Tirpitz fitting out, 2 Feb 1940	View of Admiral Graf Spee's foredeck from atop the forward 280mm gun turret, showing the main deck awash, 2 Feb 1940	View of Admiral Graf Spee's open forward control position on the superstructure, 2 Feb 1940; note the fire damage

Destroyed Lutheran church of Sortavala, Finland, 4 Feb 1940	P-36 Hawk fighter based at Hickam Field in flight over Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 8 Feb 1940	No. 21 Squadron RAAF Flying Officer James Herbert Harper flying a Wirraway aircraft over Laverton, Victoria, Australia, 9 Feb 1940	Oiler Patoka at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 11 Feb 1940; note two SOC floatplanes amidships