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The submarine’s secret mission was to surface and launch its cargo of troops, who were to make contact with a turncoat enemy. The group that was to leave the relative safety of the submarine and make landfall with uncertainty on the coast of French North Africa was led by an American, Maj. Gen. Mark Wayne Clark.
A secret mission in North Africa made General Mark Clark a national hero. This article appears in: October 2018. By Duane Schultz. The five Americans were trapped in a small, dark, empty wine cellar in an isolated French villa on the coast of Algiers.
Service in Europe and North Africa Negotiations at Algiers, November 13, 1942. From left to right: Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral François Darlan, Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, and Mr. Robert D. Murphy of the US. State Department. On April 17, 1942, Clark was temporarily promoted to the two-star rank of major ...
- 1917–1953
- General
- The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina
- United States Army
General Mark Clark. Mark Clark became the youngest Lieutenant General in America in 1945. He played important roles in Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, and in the Allied campaign in Italy. Born in 1896, Clark was educated at the West Point Military Academy.
Objective. secure cooperation of Vichy France officers in French North Africa. Outcome. successful. 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.
- diplomatic, operational
- AFHQ
- October 16, 1942
17 de abr. de 1984 · General Clark's most important combat assignment was command of the Fifth Army, which he organized and trained in North Africa in 1943 for the invasion of Italy.
On 12 December 1942, the new Fifth Army was assigned to the the multi-national Allied Force North Africa, and Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark wad designated its commanding general. At...
