3rd Bombardment Group, USAAF

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3RD BOMBARDMENT GROUP, USAAF

Coat of arms (crest) of the 3rd Bombardment Group, USAAF

Official blazon

Shield: Party per bend vert and sable a cactus (prickly pear) or, a bend azure fimbriated of the third, all within a brodure argent charged with nineteen crosses patee of the second.
Crest: On a wreath of the colors an arm couped near the shoulder paleways with hand clenched proper between two wing conjoined in lure argent.
Motto: Non solum armis - Not by arms alone.

Origin/meaning

The Coat of Arms was approved on 17 January 1922. Modified on 22 December 1952.


Literature: Air Force Combat Units of World War II.