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English: 5th Field Artillrty Regiment Coat Of Arms |
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| Source | US Army Institute of Heraldry | |||
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English: United States Army |
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- 2006-12-23 17:52 Hammon27 159×313×8 (10595 bytes) Obtained from US Army Institute of Heraldry at http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/
Coat of Arms
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Blazon
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- Shield:Gules the liberty bell Or between five arrows four point down in fess paleways and one in base fessways the latter broken Sable fimbriated Argent. On a chief embattled Vert fimbriated Argent a five-pointed mullet of the last.
- Crest:On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, on a mount an oak tree fructed of 13 acorns and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame saw Proper, the frame Or.
- Motto:FAITHFUL AND TRUE.
Symbolism
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- Shield:
- The shield is scarlet for Artillery.
- The Liberty Bell alludes to the Revolutionary War.
- The five arrows commemorate the Indian War campaign credit of old Company “F”, 4th Artillery.
- The broken arrow is indicative of the engagement near Vincennes, Indiana, 1791-11-04, in which all officers and two-thirds of the men of Bradford’s Company, Battalion of Artillery, were killed.
- The embattled partition line refers to the ramparts of Chapultapec and denotes service during the Mexican War.
- The star, the insignia of the 12th Corps in which batteries of the Regiment served, is representative of the Civil War.
Background
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- The coat of arms was originally approved for the 5th Field Artillery Regiment on 1924-06-04.
- It was redesignated for the 5th Field Artillery Battalion on 1944-09-13.
- The insignia was cancelled on 1960-04-19.
- It was reinstated and authorized for the 5th Field Artillery Regiment effective 1971-09-01.
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