Coat of Arms
- Shield:
- Tierced in pairle reversed gules, azure, and or; in chief a label of three points argent.
- On dexter side an inescutcheon of the second fimbriated, semé-de-lis, overall a saltire all of the last.
- Crest:
- On a wreath of the three colors a wyvern without wings sinister couchant reguardant argent, grasping in its dexter claw a pine tree inverted and eradicated proper.
- On its neck a label of three points azure
Motto: Sempre in Hostes. (Always into the enemy).
- Symbolism
- The coat of arms was originally approved for the 15th Tank Battalion, part of which was in the old 304th Tank Brigade. Therefore, the shield and crest of the 304th Tank Brigade are used with the label added for difference.
- The shield is of the colors of the Tank Corps Shoulder Sleeve Insignia.
- The Brigade was organized at Langres, France, in 1918, and the arms of Langres are shown on an inescutcheon differenced by a silver border and changing the cross from red to silver.
- The wyvern is from the original insignia of the French Tank Corps.
- The uprooted pine tree commemorates the activities of the brigade in the Argonne Forest during the Meuse-Argonne operations.
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