92nd Coast Artillery (United States)
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92nd Coast Artillery | |
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Coast artillery | |
Garrison/HQ | Fort Mills |
Motto(s) | "Always Ready" |
Colors | Scarlet |
Mascot(s) | Oozlefinch |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Colonel Octave De Carre |
The 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment was a
History
The regiment was constituted February 1924 as 92nd CA (HD) Regt (PS) and organized 7-1-24 at
- A Battery (Fort Wint) Beach defense
- B Battery
- C Battery Kysor
- D Battery Levagood
- E Battery Ordnance Point
- F Battery Frank North (Fort Frank)
- G Battery Monja
1st Battalion (Batteries A & B), 2nd Battalion (Batteries C & D), manned fixed and mobile seacoast guns. 3rd Bn (Bilibid Guard Bn) provided guard for the post stockade and guard details for
Distinctive unit insignia
- Description
A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, a 155-mm gun with carriage Proper between three mullets Or. Above the shield from a wreath Or and Gules, a cockatrice Or, armed, jelloped and crested Gules. Attached below the shield a Red scroll inscribed “ALWAYS READY” in Gold letters.
- Symbolism
The shield is red for Artillery. The gun represents the arm or weapon, and the three mullets are taken from the Philippine flag. The unit being allocated to the Philippine Islands, uses a cockatrice for a crest. Corregidor Island is symbolized by a fighting cock; the island is surrounded by the China Sea, and China is usually symbolized by a dragon; therefore, the cockatrice - half cock and half dragon - is symbolic of the location of the organization in the Philippines.
- Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 10 December 1937. It was rescinded/canceled on 14 March 1975.
Coat of arms
- Blazon
- Shield: Gules, a 155-mm gun with carriage Proper between three mullets Or.
- Crest: On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, a cockatrice Or, armed, jelloped and crested Gules.
- Motto: ALWAYS READY.
- Symbolism
- Shield: The shield is red for Artillery. The gun represents the arm or weapon, and the three mullets are taken from the Philippine flag.
- Crest: The unit being allocated to the Philippine Islands, uses a cockatrice for a crest. Corregidor Island is symbolized by a fighting cock; the island is surrounded by the China Sea, and China is usually symbolized by a dragon; therefore, the cockatrice - half cock and half dragon - is symbolic of the location of the organization in the Philippines.
- Background: The coat of arms was approved on 22 March 1927. It was rescinded/canceled on 14 March 1975.
Decorations
- Presidential Unit Citation with 2 Bronze Oak Leaf clusters
- Prisoner of War Medal (World War II only)
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
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This article incorporates public domain material from 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment. United States Army Institute of Heraldry.
External links
- http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lh.html Archived 8 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Heitman, Francis Bernard (1965). Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army. ISBN 9780806314013.
- Emerson, William K. (1996). Encyclopedia of United States Army insignia and uniforms By William K. Emerson (page 51). ISBN 9780806126227– via Google.
- "Nagara Maru POW roster". POWs of the Japanese.
- "Table of Armaments & Coastal Artillery Assignments". The Wainwright Papers.