A brief article (see link).
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The wing’s emblem originally identified the 50th Fighter Group and was developed and approved for use during World War II. In 1954, the 50th Fighter-Bomber Wing adopted the group’s emblem as its own, in accordance with the practice at the time. In 1956, the wing changed the emblem. The opinicus became a griffin breathing fire and facing frontwise as if attacking. Behind the griffin, an atomic cloud mushroomed into the sky. An olive branch rests behind its right talons, and a lightning bolt sits behind its left talons.
In March 1992, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Merrill A. McPeak directed the 50th SW to return to its original emblem—the one developed and used by the 50th Fighter Group in World War II. This change served to preserve the unit’s heraldry and to demonstrate the link between the 50th SW and the 50th FG.
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In March 1992, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Merrill A. McPeak directed the 50th SW to return to its original emblem—the one developed and used by the 50th Fighter Group in World War II. This change served to preserve the unit’s heraldry and to demonstrate the link between the 50th SW and the 50th FG.
Of course. It had nothing to do with getting rid of the unsettling and politically incorrect mushroom cloud.
This would be the same General McPeak who was so committed to heritage that he redesigned the Air Force uniform so it wouldn’t look so much like the old Army Air Corps uniform. Instead he made the Air Force look like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, with silver rank stripes on the cuffs.
That said, I never liked the mushroom cloud anyway, but the griffin affronty displayed was cool.
http://www.gladen.org/HahnAirBase/images/crest/WAPPEN_TFW_FREI_klein.jpg
Here’s the opinicus.
That griffin is VERY cool.
The poor Opinicus just can’t compete.
Nick B II;58825 wrote:
That griffin is VERY cool.
The poor Opinicus just can’t compete.
Actually, I don’t like the griffin at all. It doesn’t show up well, and the device is too cluttered for the griffin to be readily identifiable. And what is that red bit? Does it have a nosebleed? Or beakbleed?
(Mods- shouldn’t this be in military heraldry, rather than academic?)
Madalch;58826 wrote:
Actually, I don’t like the griffin at all. It doesn’t show up well, and the device is too cluttered for the griffin to be readily identifiable. And what is that red bit? Does it have a nosebleed? Or beakbleed?
(Mods- shouldn’t this be in military heraldry, rather than academic?)
The griffin is cool. The rest of the coat is not cool, not cool at all.
As I type this I’m actually attempting to edit all the other stuff out, and make the shield itself or. But the only tool I know very well is Appleworks, so things are not going quickly.
Nick
Joseph McMillan;58824 wrote:
Of course. It had nothing to do with getting rid of the unsettling and politically incorrect mushroom cloud.
This would be the same General McPeak who was so committed to heritage that he redesigned the Air Force uniform so it wouldn’t look so much like the old Army Air Corps uniform. Instead he made the Air Force look like the Coast Guard Auxiliary, with silver rank stripes on the cuffs.
That said, I never liked the mushroom cloud anyway, but the griffin affronty displayed was cool.
http://www.gladen.org/HahnAirBase/images/crest/WAPPEN_TFW_FREI_klein.jpg
Here’s the opinicus.
It behooves me to point out, once again, that an opinicus doesn’t have hooves.
It is not an opinicus. It is of the gryph class, which has dozens of variations including the griffin, hippogriff, and opinicus. It could be a hybrid like the hippogriff, which is the offspring of a horse and griffin. Perhaps a better blazon would be "a gryph with head and wings aquiline and body and limbs equine."
