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Mark Wayne Clark (1 May 1896 – 17 April 1984) was a United States Army officer who saw service during World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest four-star general in the US Army during World War II.
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 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 ...
Mark W. Clark, pictured in 1942 as a major general, commanded Fifth Army throughout most of its World War II service. Progress was then good for a couple of weeks and the Fifth Army crossed the Barbara Line and the Volturno Line until the Germans turned, stood and fought.
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]
Mark W. Clark: H. von Vietinghoff: Strength; 170,000 servicemen [1] 35,000 Germans [2] Casualties and losses United Kingdom [3] 982 killed 4,060 wounded 2,230 missing Royal Navy: 83 killed 42 wounded United States [3] 5th Army: 788 killed 2,841 wounded 1,318 missing US Navy: 296 killed 422 wounded 551 missing Total: 2,149 killed 7,365 wounded ...
Operation Avalanche was the codename for the combined US and British landings on the southwest coast of Italy on 9 September 1943 as part of the Allied effort in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. The forces landed consisted of the US Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark.
Mark W. Clark Richard L. McCreery. Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark. Army Group Reserve [b] US 82nd Airborne ("All-American") Division Major General Matthew B. Ridgway 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment 325th Glider Infantry Regiment US 1st Armored ("Old Ironsides") Division [c] Major General Ernest N. Harmon