13th Field Artillery Battalion

The Thirteenth Field Artillerry Battalion (the "Lucky Thirteenth") was a U.S. Army artillery unit that was attached to the Twenti-fourth Division on Oahu in Hawaii. The Thirteenth was dipatched in defending the north shore between Haleiwa and Waimea during the Japanese invasion on December 7, 1941. Unfortunately, the Thirteenth was delayed by bomb-cratered roads and then becoming decimated by Japanese planes. First Lieutenant Fletch Armitage was among the battalion that survived the carnage and led the few surviving remnants of the Thirteenth in defending Oahu until the American surrender.