A Gold color metal and enamel device 1+1⁄8 inches (2.9 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned: Gules, issuing from base a phoenix Or rising from flames Proper.

Attached below the shield a Red scroll inscribed "CELERITAS IN CONFICIENDO" in Gold letters.

The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 39th Field Artillery Battalion on 25 February 1941.

On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, in front of a cloud Argent an isosceles triangle Sable and a war mace palewise the staff counterchanged and the head with six spikes Azure charged with a crescent of the first all surmounted in base by four arrowheads in pile conjoined at the point Gold.

The head of the mace is blue in reference to the color of the Distinguished Unit Citation streamer awarded for that action.