Introducing project “Military Insignia”, featuring top quality military heraldry designs. Here you will find designer apparel, accessories, custom postage and gifts decorated with insignia of the 5th Artillery Group. The 5th Artillery Group is the largest field artillery group, both in the number of service-members and the number of detachements. It`s also the most spread out group, with detachements as far south as Frankfurt and as far north as the cold, North Sea. In all, the group has 10 detachements and one company divided into 30 teams in 31 different locations throughout central and northern Germany. The group has a history dating back to World War II. Activated on Sept. 5, 1942, the 5th is the oldest artillery group in the U.S. Army. It participated in combat in North Africa and Sicily in 1943 and in France and Germany in 1944 and 1945. It also fought in Korea. The group came to Germany again in 1963 and currently maintains an assigned strength of over 1500 personnel. It provides custodial support, technical support and custodial maintenance for several weapons systems in support of units from the German, Dutch and Belgian Army and Air Force. The distinctive unit insignia was approved on 5 August 1968. Scarlet and gold (yellow) are the colors of Artillery. The five points (four gold rays and point of the arrowhead) allude to the Group’s numerical designation. The gold cannon in center signifies the First Artillery Group organized in the United States Army. The arrowhead refers to the unit’s decoration for participation in the invasion of Sicily during World War II and the Taeguks denote two awards of the Korean Presidential Unit Citation for service in that country.