Generals Mark Clark and James Van Fleet, 1953
Published: October 2, 2011
Frank Praytor ©Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Japan, February, 1953: Gen. Mark Clark, left, head of the United Nations Command, and Gen. James Van Fleet, outgoing commander of the U.S. Eighth Army and U.N. forces in Korea, rush between events at Clark's headquarters at Pershing Heights in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. Van Fleet, 60, was being honored on his way home to retirement after turning over command of the war effort to Gen. Maxwell Taylor. Van Fleet was called "the greatest general we have ever had" by President Truman.
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