237TH ENGINEER BATTALION
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Distinctive Unit Insignia

Distinctive Unit Insignia

Description
A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned:  Gules, issuant from base, Pikes Peak Proper, a border Argent.  Attached below and to the sides of the shield a Silver scroll inscribed DEDICATED AND DETERMINED in Black letters.

Symbolism
The use of the shield of the coat of arms approved for the 49th Engineer Regiment, difference by a border, indicates the descent of the Battalion from the 2d Battalion of that organization.  Scarlet and white are the colors used for the Corps of Engineers.  The representation of Pikes Peak alludes to Camp Carson, Colorado, where the 49th Engineer Regiment was activated.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 12 September 1955.




Coat of Arms

Coat of Arms

Blazon

Shield

Gules, issuant from base, Pikes Peak Proper, a border Argent.

Crest

On a wreath of the colors Argent and Gules, a lion passant guardant Or armed and langued of the second upon a mural crown of the first in front of the blade of an eighteenth century partisan pole arm of the like charged with a fleur-de-lis Azure.

Motto

DEDICATED AND DETERMINED.

Symbolism

Shield

The use of the shield of the coat of arms approved for the 49th Engineer Regiment, difference by a border, indicates the descent of the Battalion from the 2d Battalion of that organization.  Scarlet and white are the colors used for the Corps of Engineers.  The representation of Pikes Peak alludes to Camp Carson, Colorado, where the 49th Engineer Regiment was activated.

Crest

The fleur-de-lis refers to France; the lion is the Provincial Arms of Normandy and, together with the partisan or spearhead, represent the units participation in the invasion of France, World War II.  The blue color of the fleur-de-lis refers to the award of the Presidential Unit Citation and the fleur-de-lis itself indicates the award of the French Croix de Guerre with silver star.  The mural crown represents attacks against fortified towns during the units participation in the Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and Central Europe Campaigns.

Background
The coat of arms was approved on 12 September 1955.  It was amended to add a crest on 11 July 1975.





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