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The escutcheon represents the coordinated activity of the different elements of the Antiaircraft Artillery. The base of red is the Artillery color. | |||
The thunderbolts indicate the employment of electrical power. A searchlight beam pierces the night sky of blue. In the shaft of light rises a winged projectile, flying swiftly and surely to its target. | |||
The thunderbolts are power; the shaft of light, the illustration of truth through knowledge; the sky, the illimitable regions of the upper air that Antiaircraft Artillery must conquer; the winged projectile, the spirit of the School, young, rising, indomitable. | |||
The device was originally approved on 1942-10-20 for the Antiaircraft Artillery School. | |||
It was redesignated for the Antiaircraft and Guided Missiles Branch of the Artillery School' on 1952-07-15. | |||
On 1957-07-26 the device was redesignated for the U. S. Army Air Defense School. | |||
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