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Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
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Clark, Joseph James (Jocko or J.J.), ADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Last Address St. Albans, NY
Date of Passing Jul 13, 1971
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Other Memories Take off those neckties!" roared Rear Admiral J. J. "Jocko" Clark as he emerged from the RY-1 transport plane at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on 27 June 1945. The plush Navy version of the Army Air Forces (AAF) B-24 Liberator bomber had brought this premier task group commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force from the war-torn Pacific to the richly deserved rest of a training command.
Born and raised as part Cherokee in the former Indian Territory that became Oklahoma, Clark equated Texas heat with that of the Pacific. At the command, his new officers happily removed their ties. His reputation as a fighter had preceded him in the fleet and the press, visualized by cartoon caricatures of him having scalped enemy Japan's Emperor Hirohito.
