Mark W. Clark
Sign in to saveUnited States Army general (1896–1984)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1896-05-01
- Died
- 1984-04-17
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Beyond catastrophe
- Calculated Risk
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Madison Barracks, New York, U.S
Known for
- PAN MUN JOM, You have never seen — Self (archive footage)2021
- No Substitute for Victory — Narrator (as Mark Clark)1970
- Small World — Self1958
- I Was an American Spy — Himself / Authenticator in Prolog (as General Mark Clark)1951
- Crusade in Europe — Self (archive footage)1949
- The Battle of San Pietro — Himself - Introduction1945
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 64,958x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,587x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 39,572x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 38,991x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,528x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Nicknames
- "American Eagle", "Wayne", "Contraband" (while at West Point)
- Born
- ( 1896-05-01 ) 1 May 1896, Madison Barracks , Sackets Harbor , New York, U.S.
- Died
- 17 April 1984 (1984-04-17) (aged 87), Charleston, South Carolina , U.S.
- Buried
- The Citadel , Charleston, South Carolina
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Army
- Service years
- 1917–1953
- Rank
- General
- Service number
- 0–5309
- Unit
- Infantry Branch
- Commands
- United Nations Command , Sixth United States Army , 15th Army Group , Seventh United States Army , Fifth United States Army , II Corps , 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment
- Awards
- Distinguished Service Cross , Army Distinguished Service Medal (4), Navy Distinguished Service Medal , Legion of Merit , Bronze Star Medal , Purple Heart
Key dates
- Born
- 1 May 1896
- Died
- 17 April 1984
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wayne
- Family name
- Clark
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Sackets Harbor
- Place of death
- Charleston
- Occupation
- military officer
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Mark Wayne Clark (1 May 1896 – 17 April 1984) was a United States Army officer who fought in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. He was the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army during World War II.
During World War I, he was a company commander and served in France in 1918, as a 22-year-old captain, where he was seriously wounded by shrapnel. After the war, the future US Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, noticed Clark's abilities. During World War II, he commanded the United States Fifth Army, and later the 15th Army Group, in the Italian campaign. He is known for leading the Fifth Army when it captured Rome in June 1944, around the same time as the Normandy landings. He was also the head of planning for Operation Torch, the largest seaborne invasion at the time.
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1896 births1984 deaths20th-century American memoiristsAmerican anti-communistsAmerican EpiscopaliansAmerican nationalistsAmerican people of Romanian-Jewish descentAmerican recipients of the Legion of HonourAmerican segregationistsAnti-German sentiment in the United StatesCivilian Conservation Corps peopleGrand Crosses of the Order of the White Lion