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Emblem of the 23d Bomb Squadron (23 BS) of the United States Air Force |
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[edit] Blazon
On a Blue disc a volcano in Black silhouette with Red lava flowing from the crater, extending upward therefrom and intermingled with clouds, futuristic vari-colored rays from Yellow to Red, on front thereof five Black drop bombs, two on the dexter and three on the sinister side.
Approved on 30 Sep 1931 and reinstated on 13 Jan 1994; (8543 A.C.); replaced emblem approved on 12 May 1952 (44361 A.C.).
[edit] Significance
The patch's design commemorates the occasion where the unit was assigned to disrupt the eruption of Mauna Loa volcano on 27 December 1935, by dropping twenty 600-pound bombs in the path of the volcano’s lava flow.
