1st Lieutenant Thomas G Clark

1st Lieutenant Thomas G Clark US Army. He was born 12 June 1920 in Deleon, Texas. Attended primary and high schools in Deleon, and joined the Army on 24 September 1936, at the age of 16. He received his preliminary training at Fort Clark, Texas, and served in Troops A, Troops B, and Troops C, and 1st Squadron, Headquarters, Fifth Cavalry, First Cavalry Division. All of his combat service was in Troop A, Fifth Cavalry, First Cavalry Division, Sixth Army. His principal engagements occurred in the Philippines, and he was in the initial assault on Leyte Island, on 20 October 1944; landed on Luzon on 27 January 1945, and entered Manila with the First Cavalry Division. Lieutenant Clark landed in Yokohama on 2 September and entered Tokyo with the First Cavalry Occupation Forces. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal (PHM) for concussion and shell fragment wounds received during the fight for Intramuros, Manila. He also holds the American Defense Service, Good Conduct, and Victory Medals; Combat Infantry Badge (CIB), Distinguished Unit Citation (PUC), the Bronze Arrowhead, Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 2 Bronze Stars, and the Asiatic Pacific (PTO) Ribbon with 3 Bronze Stars. Lieutenant Clark followed his battle service with duty at the CRTC, Fort Riley, Kansas. He is the son of Mrs. A. C. Lawless of Deleon, Texas, and his wife is Virginia Clark of Denver. 

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1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF Colorado – Asiatic-Pacific Theater World War Two – 1948