An U.S. Army serviceman close the door of the General Mark Clark (Mark Wayne Clark), U.S. Fifth Army’s commanding general, personal aircraft, a Piper L-4 Grasshopper, Italy 1943. Clark is in the back seat while in the front seat is Major John Thornton Walker, at this time Clark’s personal pilot. Victor Sierra

The Clark’s Piper L-4

Fifth Army engineers finish a bridge across a streambed in central Italy to replace the span destroyed by German demolitionists. In twenty months of fighting in Italy, the Allies would erect three thousand spans, with a combined length of fifty-five miles. This one took ten hours to build.


Army engineers

Italy, 1944: General Mark Clark, U.S. Fifth Army’s commanding general during the Italian Campaign, standing in front of the Stinson L-5 Sentinel, “A” s/n 298489, “Rome Express”, which replaced the L-4 Grasshopper earlier used by Clark as personal aircraft. Under the windscreen the name of J. T. Walker, Clark’s personal pilot. Notice the Clark’s tallness which nearly touch the airplane’s wing leading edge. Victor Sierra