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Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark inspecting members of the 34th Infantry Division of the II Corps, shortly after the liberation of Rome, June 1944. Early on the morning of 28 January 1944, a PT boat carrying Clark to the Anzio beachhead, six days after the Anzio landings, was mistakenly fired on by U.S. naval vessels.
Fifth Army, under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark. It comprised the U.S. VI Corps , the British X Corps , and the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division , a total of about nine divisions . Its primary objectives were to seize the port of Naples to ensure resupply, and to cut across to the east coast, trapping the Axis troops further south.
Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, commander of the Fifth United States Army, a fellow graduate of the West Point class of 1917, referring to Ridgway as an "outstanding battle soldier, brilliant, fearless and loyal", who had "trained and produced one of the finest Fifth Army outfits", was unwilling to give up either Ridgway or the 82nd. [15]
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...
Major General Mark Clark. Operation Flagpole was part of the run-up to Operation Torch, the planned Allied invasion of North Africa during World War II.It involved arranging for and carrying out a top-secret high-level meeting between U.S. General Mark W. Clark, representing the Allies, and Général Charles E. Mast, the leader of a group of pro-Allied Vichy France officers in French North ...
The forces landed consisted of the US Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark. The Fifth Army was made up of the British X Corps, which landed south of the town of Salerno, and the US VI Corps, which landed at the town of Paestum. The landings were carried out by combined forces of the US Navy and Royal Navy.
The Fifth Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, who knew the 36th Division well from his time as chief of staff to Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, commander of Army Ground Forces, and specifically chose the 36th Division, rather than the more experienced 34th Infantry Division, together with the British 46th and 56th ...
Lt. General Mark W. Clark pins a battle streamer on the guidon of Co. G, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment which is held by Pvt. Harold T. Williams, Long Beach, California, April 8, 1944. The near-continuous fighting in Italy had cost the 504th dearly; just over 1,100 casualties were sustained. [1]