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William P.O. Clarke
William Price Oliver Clarke was a U.S. Navy admiral who led the effort to train landing craft crews for amphibious operations during World War II. He later participated in Operation Torch in North Africa and the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima in the Pacific. Clarke was awarded the Legion of Merit three times.〔
==Early years==
William P.O. Clarke was born in 1893 in Mott, CA to Ellen and Charles Oliver Clarke, Jr., both immigrants from England. They originally settled in Texas and then moved to northern California where Charles worked as a lumberman. Later, he was listed in the local census as being a justice of the peace and insurance agent.
In July 1912 Rep. John E. Raker nominated William Clarke to the U.S. Naval Academy. The Academy's Lucky Bag yearbook for 1917 described him as "a fellow with the map of a big heart written all over his face." Clarke played on the varsity football team, rowed crew, and was elected Regimental Staff Petty Officer of the Class of 1917 (one of the six officers of the class). His Navy colleagues frequently called him "WOP", a transposition of his initials.
In 1923, Clarke received an M.S. degree from MIT, writing a dissertation entitled "Effect of Roll of Ship on Fall of Shot When Using Director Fire.
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