page_title: Augustus Dayton Clark
section_title: 1940s and the Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: Augustus Dayton Clark / 1940s and the Second World War
caption_attribution_description: U.S. Army vehicles roll ashore on one of the floating causeways of the "Mulberry" artificial harbor off "Omaha" Beach, 16 June 1944. The causeway had been erected by U.S. Navy SeaBees. Note the M3 half-track in the lead, towing a howitzer, and the Jeep behind it with a semi-circle marking painted on its grill.
context_page_description: Augustus Dayton Clark, a 1922 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a United States Naval captain, was Commanding Officer of Force Mulberry A at Omaha Beach during the Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
context_section_description: He was assigned as Assistant Naval Attaché in London and US Naval Observer attached to the Royal Navy's Force H under Vice Admiral James Sommerville in the Western Mediterranean in 1940-41. In 1941 he became Operations Officer on the staff of Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley in London. The following year, 1941–42, was again spent as Liaison Officer attached to Vice Admiral Sommerville but this time with the British Far Eastern and Indian Ocean Fleet. Clark then returned to the United States in 1942-43 to join the Staff of the Commander in Chief of the US Fleet in Washington DC. He served there as part of the Readiness Division dealing with tactical analysis. Clark returned to Europe on the staff of Rear Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk in London in 1943-44. From there he was appointed Commanding Officer of Mulberry A (CTF 128) as part of the D-Day Landings on 6 June 1944. Clark sailed to the D-Day beaches aboard SC-1329, a submarine chaser built in 1943 by Simms Bros. of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
  Later in 1944 he received his final appointment as Chief of Staff to Rear Admiral John E. Wilkes, Commander of Ports and Bases in France.
caption: U.S. Army vehicles roll ashore on one of the floating causeways of the "Mulberry" artificial harbor off "Omaha" Beach, 16 June 1944. The causeway had been erected by U.S. Navy SeaBees. Note the M3 half-track in the lead, towing a howitzer, and the Jeep behind it with a semi-circle marking painted on its grill.
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