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The shield is blue for Infantry. Service in the Civil War is shown by the white cross patée, the badge if the 5th Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac, and by the stone wall which symbolizes the famous stone wall at Fredericksburg. The five-bastioned fort was the badge of the 5th Army Corps in Cuba. The buffalo represents service in Korea; It was adopted as a symbol of the unit while it served there. | The shield is blue for Infantry. Service in the Civil War is shown by the white cross patée, the badge if the 5th Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac, | ||
The crest is the white maltese cross of the V Corps in the Civil War and represents the desperate fighting in the Wheatfield and Devil's Den at Gettysburg where the regiment lost approximately 50% of its effective strength. The sea lion is taken from the Spanish arms of Manila, and the arrows represent Indian campaigns. | and by the stone wall which symbolizes the famous stone wall at Fredericksburg.<br> | ||
The five-bastioned fort was the badge of the 5th Army Corps in Cuba. The buffalo represents service in Korea; It was adopted as a symbol of the unit while it served there.<br> | |||
The crest is the white maltese cross of the V Corps in the Civil War and represents the desperate fighting in the Wheatfield and Devil's Den at Gettysburg where the regiment<br> | |||
lost approximately 50% of its effective strength. The sea lion is taken from the Spanish arms of Manila, and the arrows represent Indian campaigns.<br> | |||
The coat of arms was originally approved on 15 March 1921. It was amended by the addition of the buffalo for Korean service on 5 May 1952. It was amended on 1 May 1990 to revise the blazon and symbolism of the design. | |||
[[Literature]]: Image and Information from Wikimedia Commons. | |||
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[[Category:Military heraldry of the United States]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United States]] | ||
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[[Category:Granted 1921]] | |||