13th Defense Battalion passes in review at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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The 13th Defense Battalion passes in review at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 1943. Marine historian and veteran defense battalion Marine Col Robert D. Heinl, Jr., described the men of these battalions, who often endured months of waiting punctuated by days of savage action, as a "hard worked and frustrated species." The 13th was shortly to deploy to the Pacific.
