Identify this unit insignia

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Kingfisher
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Identify this unit insignia

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The above illustration is titled "Bridging the Tenaru River" and can be found here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA ... index.html

I am interested in finding out information on the insignia that appears on the cab of the nearest DUKW / Boat / whatever was used as flotation for the bridge.
At first glance it appears to be a star of david, but it has to be something else.
"splendid was their tactic of diving upon our force from the direction of the sun, taking advantage of intermittent clouds"

-Captain Takahisa Amagai, KAGA, June 4th 1942
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Probably a local visual marking used by the unit. Triangle point up = 1st Plt, triangle point down = 2nd plt, superimposed triangles = 3rd plt.

Maybe.
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there is the star of David on the left...
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IDF crossing the River Jordan in '67 [;)]
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