Tweets from RealTimeWWII for Dec 13, 1939 .... Battle of the River Plate

The battle between three British cruisers and the German battleship Graf Spee.

After reading the tweets of Dec 13,  you are as impatient as I was to know the fate of the Graf Spee and Captain Langsdorff, who made the fatal mistake of thinking the British cruisers were a harmless merchant convoy, go here.