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    The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War. The Kriegsmarine...
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  • The Battle of the River Plate (a.k.a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the...
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  • Spanish language Battle of the River Plate, in World War II The Battle of the River Plate (film), a film about the battle Live at River Plate, a DVD by Australian...
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    Hans Langsdorff (category German military personnel of the Spanish Civil War)
    command of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before and during the Battle of the River Plate off the coast of Uruguay in 1939. After the Panzerschiff...
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    Argentina during World War II (category History of Argentina (1943–1955))
    August 2016) [1956]. The Battle of the River Plate: The First Naval Battle of the Second World War (5th ed.). Barnsley, United Kingdom of Great Britain: Frontline...
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  • The End of the River, The Red Shoes; Sound Recordist: The Battle of the River Plate, Ill Met by Moonlight, Peeping Tom; Sound Editor: The Edge of the...
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    The Río de la Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ðe la ˈplata] ; lit. 'River of Silver'), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English,...
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  • F. S. Bell (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    August 1897 – 23 November 1973) of the Royal Navy was the commander of HMS Exeter during the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939. He was educated...
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  • John Merivale (category Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
    in The Battle of the River Plate. He went on to have supporting roles in films such as A Night to Remember (1958), Circus of Horrors (1960), House of Mystery...
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    Eugen Millington-Drake (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    to the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1939 he played a pivotal, behind-the scenes role in the Battle of the River Plate. (In the 1956 British war film The Battle...
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