Which naval battle took place in December 1939, the second naval battle in the events for the Second World War?
Battle of the River Plate Battle of the River Plate The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War and the first one of the Battle of the Atlantic in South American waters. The German panzerschiff "Admiral Graf Spee" had cruised into the South Atlantic a fortnight before the war began, and had been commerce raiding after receiving appropriate authorisation on 26 September 1939. One of the hunting groups sent by the British Admiralty to search for "Graf Spee", comprising three Royal Navy cruisers, , and (the last from the New Zealand Division), found and engaged their quarry
Battle of Vella Lavella (naval) second phase of Operation Cartwheel – the plan for the reduction of the main Japanese base at Rabaul. Battle of Vella Lavella (naval) The was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II fought on the night of 6 October 1943, near the island of Vella Lavella in the Solomon Islands. It marked the end of a three month fight to capture the central Solomon Islands, as part of the Solomon Islands Campaign. The battle took place at the end of the ground campaign on Vella Lavella, as the Japanese sought to evacuate the 600-strong garrison from