17th Bombardment Group (later Wing), USAAF

	17TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP (LATER WING), USAAF Country: United States

Official blazon
English	Shield:Or, seven crosses pattee in pale sable. Crest:On a wreath of the color (or and sable) a griffin rampant of the first, beaked, fore-legged and winged of the second, and laguned gules. Motto:Toujours au danger.

Approved on 19 January 1934. The Motto translates as "Ever into danger".

Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from Air Force Combat Units of World War II.

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