biography
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Clark, Mark (Wayne)
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| lived:
| (1896–1984)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Madison Barracks, New York, USA. The son of a career army officer, he trained at West Point (1917), and fought in France the next year. He served in successive staff and operational posts through the 1930s. On 8 November 1942, he convinced Vichy Admiral Darlan to order French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria. Clark commanded the 5th Army in the Salerno landings (Sep 1943), and after a winter of hard fighting his troops entered Rome (4 Jun 1944). As commander of the 15th Army Group, he received the surrender of 230 000 Axis troops in the Alps in April 1945. He commanded UN forces in Korea (1952–3) and signed the armistice that ended the fighting there. Retiring from the army in 1953, he became president of The Citadel, the military college in South Carolina (1954–65). |
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