5th Air Defense Artillery Unit Crest

5th Air Defense Artillery Unit Crest

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Description

Motto

Volens et Potens (Willing and Able).

Symbolism

Shield

The shield is scarlet for artillery. The fishhook, representative of the shape of the federal battle lines, alludes to the battle of Gettysburg. The cannon in pairs refer to the battle of New Market, 1864. The Lorraine Cross denotes service in Lorraine by an element of the regiment during World War I.

Crest

The crest represents the gallant service of Lt. Richard Metcalf's battery (Batteries C and I combined) at Spotsylvania, 4–24 May 1864, when it charged earthworks firing its guns and then ran them up by hand to a new position, to the Bloody Angle, and fired repeatedly. This is purported to be the only recorded instance in the Civil War of a battery charging on breastworks.

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