69TH BOMB SQUADRON
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Emblem


Description/Blazon

On a disc Azure, a thunderhead cloud throughout Argent, surmounted by a stylized eagle swooping bend wise sinister resonating lines to its body four of the last in base and thirteen, three above the wing, four between the wings, and six below the wings all of the first, and three tailing the wing, one, one and one all Sable, its sinister side of the like, its dexter side Grebe, crowned of the third, eyed Gules, grasping in its claws an aerial bomb nose to dexter base Or, detailed of the third, double banded of the fifth, contrailing four hash marks of the sixth, all within a narrow border Yellow.

Attached below the disc, a Blue scroll edged with a narrow Yellow border and inscribed "69TH BOMB SQUADRON" in Yellow letters.

 


Symbolism

Ultramarine blue and Air Force yellow are the Air Force colors.  Blue alludes to the sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations.  Yellow refers to the sun and the excellence required of Air Force personnel.  The eagle is representative of the respect and power of the unit's primary weapon system, the bomber.  The vapor trail is suggestive of the high altitude at which the unit operates.  Clutched in the eagle's claws, the aerial bomb alludes to the primary mission of the unit.  The red in the eagle's eye and bands on the bomb symbolize the power and destruction the unit is capable of delivering.






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