<p>Emblem of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23d_Bomb_Squadron" class="extiw" title="en:23d Bomb Squadron">23d Bomb Squadron</a> (23 BS), a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Squadron_emblems_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force">squadron</a> of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Blazon">Blazon</span></h3>
<p>On a Blue disc a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volcano" title="Volcano">volcano</a> in Black silhouette with Red <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lava" title="Lava">lava</a> flowing from the crater, extending upward therefrom and intermingled with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Clouds" class="mw-redirect" title="Clouds">clouds</a>, 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.
</p><p>Approved on 30 Sep 1931 and reinstated on 13 Jan 1994; (8543 A.C.); replaced emblem approved on 12 May 1952 (44361 A.C.).
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Significance">Significance</span></h3>
The patch's design commemorates the occasion where the unit was assigned to disrupt the eruption of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa" title="Mauna Loa">Mauna Loa</a> volcano on 27 December 1935, by dropping twenty 600-pound bombs in the path of the volcano’s lava flow.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pmsyyz" title="User:Pmsyyz">User:Pmsyyz</a> converted from JPEG to PNG; added transparency, resized to 1100px wide, indexed color)
2006-04-20
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