World War Two: Home Front 1940
Crowds look on as officers and sailors from the Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Exeter and HMS Ajax enter Queen Street from Queen Victoria Street in London on 23rd February 1940 during the parade marking the involvement of the two ships' crews in the scuttling and sinking of the German Kriegsmarine Deutschland-class Panzerschiff pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate on 13th December 1939. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).
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