the last surviving crew member of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate at the beginning of World War II, has passed away and was buried Saturday in Montevideo.
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Warship Sunk by the Nazis During World War II Located Off the Coast of BrazilA German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...
More than 170 bombs from World War II were discovered underneath a ... "Due to the large amount of ordnance buried, the site survey could not be completed in the anticipated 2 days and a further ...
It is believed the area was used as a Home Guard training ground and the ordnance was buried at the end of the war. Conservative councillor Mark Mather said: "I never thought as a parish ...
Donnie MacRae grew up in Gairloch and was a talented tailor Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of ... his family discovered he had been buried without his brain.
Local politician Mark Mather told the BBC that the area was reportedly used to train the Home Guard volunteer army during World War II, and it appeared that after the war the ordnance was buried.
On July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 torpedoed the Vital de Oliveira, sinking it and killing about 100 of the 270 ...
Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was not until almost 80 years later that his family discovered he had been buried without his brain.
Donnie MacRae was captured during the Battle of St Valery in France in 1940 (Representational) A soldier, who died as a German prisoner of war in 1941, was buried ... during World War II and ...
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