HMS Exeter 1942: Cómo Cayó el Cazador del Graf Spee en 26 Minutos en el Mar de Java?

HMS Exeter 1942: How Did the Graf Spee's Hunter Fall in 26 Minutes in the Java Sea? March 1, 1942, Java Sea, 200 kilometers north of Surabaya: the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, the same British ship that had cornered the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the Río de la Plata three years earlier, did not meet its end in the Atlantic. It met its end facing four Japanese heavy cruisers—Nachi, Haguro, Myoko, and Ashigara—under the command of Commander Oliver Gordon, a survivor of the explosion of HMS Queen Mary in Jutland in 1916. Twenty-six minutes of combat, 152 sailors lost, and the hero of the Río de la Plata disappeared beneath the warm tropical waters. Gordon's capture by the Japanese fleet would leave the commander with three and a half years in prisoner-of-war camps in Sumatra—and the hunter of the Graf Spee became the hunted of the Java Sea. #HMSExeter #BattleOfTheJavaSea #CommanderGordon #GrafSpee #IJNNachi #IJNHaguro #MilitaryHistory "LEGAL NOTICE This video has been created for educational and historical purposes. The information presented is based on documented historical sources related to World War II. All sequences, images, and audio used belong to their respective owners and are used under "fair use" (section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act) for the purposes of commentary, criticism, education, and documentary."