(1896–1984), U.S. Army office. General Mark Clark commanded the Allied forces during the Italian campaign of World War II in 1943–44. Clark graduated from West Point in 1917 and saw service in World War I. Early in World War II he was appointed commander of the 5th Army, which made a successful landing at Salerno in September l943. After a hard-fought campaign Rome was liberated in June 1944. German forces in the north of Italy surrendered on May 2, 1945. Clark served as commander of all United Nations troops during the last 25 months of the Korean War. He retired in 1953 and became president of The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina. He died in Charleston, S.C., on April 17, 1984.