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Summary
Coat of Arms.
Blazon:
Shield:
- Azure issuant from chief, an eagle's claw, talons extended Or, armed Sable.
Crest:
- On a wreath Or and Azure, an eagle's feather palewise Tenné behind two bayonets saltirewise of the first hilted Sable garnished Gold surmounted by a gun stone bearing a four-bastioned fort Argent charged with an ermine spot of the fourth.
Motto:
- STRIKE.
Symbolism:
Shield:
- The blue of the shield is for Infantry.
- The grasping eagle's claw is a representation of the airborne functions of the organization.
Crest:
- The bayonets refer to the capture of Carentan, Normandy, by bayonet charge.
- They are two in number in reference to the Regiment's two Distinguished Unit Citations and its two assault landings in World War II.
- The eagle's feather stands for the unit's airborne function; orange, the national color of the Netherlands, refers to the liberation of Best, Holland.
- The white four-bastioned fort encircled by a black background represents Bastogne, Belgium, surrounded by the German salient in the Battle of the Bulge.
- The ermine spot on the white fort refers to the snow which blanketed the Battle's terrain.
Motto:
- The motto "Strike" is expressive of the power of the organization.
Background:
- The coat of arms was originally approved for the approved for the 502d Parachute Infantry Regiment on 14 Nov 1942.
- It was redesignated for the 502d Airborne Infantry Regiment on 5 Apr 1949.
- On 14 Feb 1958 the coat of arms was redesignated for the 502d Infantry.
- The coat of arms was amended on 9 Jun 1965 to add the crest.
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