GENERAL MARK W. CLARK - SPECIAL COVER SIGNED - HFSID 177279
Sale Price $126.00
Reg. $140.00
MARK W. CLARK
Mark W. Clark signs a special cover honoring the end of World War
II.
Special Cover signed: "Mark W. Clark", 6½x3½. Purple Walt
Czubat cachet showing a cartoon of an American soldier firing a cannon at a
poster of Hitler. One 2-cent For defense stamp affixed at upper right corner.
Postmark illegible. Mark W. Clark became a Lieutenant General after leading a
secret submarine mission to North Africa in 1942, the year that Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker, President and General Manager of Eastern Air Lines (1936-1963),
crashed in the Pacific on a government mission. Mark W. Clark (1896-1984),
who assumed command of the Fifth Army in North Africa in 1943 and
commanded the Fifth Army in the invasion of Italy in 1944, became a
Four-Star General in March 1945. He accepted the surrender of German forces
in Italy and Austria and, from 1945 to 1947, was the U.S. High Commissioner
in occupied Austria. In 1953, as Commander in Chief of the United Nations
Command, he signed the military armistice between the U.N. Command and the
North Korean Army and Chinese People's Volunteers in Korea. That year, he also
began his 12 years of service as President of The Citadel. Clark is
buried on the campus of The Citadel next to Mark Clark Hall. Lightly worn at
corners and edges. Pencil notes (unknown hand) on verso (no show through).
Overall, fine condition.
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