Naval Base 13 in the Azores defended the port of the island of São Miguel, a British wireless station near Ponta Delgada, and support structures for the assigned or passing naval units during World War I. Marine Corps units (1st Marine Aeronautic Company and another comprising a mix of infantry, artillery, and services corps), U.S. Ponta Delgada, World War I, Azores, Naval Base 13, Azores Detachment of the U.S. This article offers a vision of Naval Base 13 as a U.S./Europe border during World War I that was critical to the protection of British and American military and commercial shipping and denying Germany any base of operations in the region from which to launch attacks on Allied forces. Naval Base 13 defended the port, a British wireless station near Ponta Delgada, and support structures for the assigned or passing naval units. Navy facilities at Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel. This article derives from a master’s thesis about the consequences of World War I in the Azores archipelago that included a chapter dedicated to the U.S. The author also thanks Susan Burkat Trubey and translator Carolina Cordeiro for their language review of this article. The author thanks António Paulo Godinho and Hugo Cabral for their research about the 1st Marine Aeronautic Company in the Azores. This article derives in part from Sergio Rezendes, “World War I in the Azores: Historical Memory and Military Heritage” (master’s thesis, University of the Azores, 2008). As president of the Azorean Reserve Officer Association, he is the national representative to the Defense Attitudes and Security Issues Committee of the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. With six published books and many scientific works, Rezendes was appointed as a member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Commission of the Azorean government for the subject of history, geography, and culture of the Azores and by dispatch of the Portuguese National Defense Ministry, as a member of the Military Tourism Commission for the Azores, in 2014. Currently, he is a teacher at Castanheiro School in Ponta Delgada, Azores serves as a collaborator of the Portuguese Coordinating Committee for the Evocation of the Centenary of World War I and of the Centro República and is a post-doctoral researcher of the History, Territories and Communities Institute of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Rezendes has served as vice director of the Military Museum of the Azores and also worked with the Military Museum of Lisbon and Military Historical Archives. This article is derived from a portion of his master’s thesis, published by Letras Lavadas (1st ed., 2014) and Caleidoscópio (2d ed., 2017). Sérgio Alberto Fontes Rezendes holds an undergraduate degree in history and social science, a master’s in cultural heritage and museology, and a PhD in insular (Azores) and Atlantic history.
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