Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Clark ya jagoranci Rundunar Soji ta Biyar, yanzu ta rage yawan ma'aikata, bayan da ya ba da kungiyar Amurka ta VI da kuma Faransanci na Faransanci (CEF)
Operation Dragoon, mamayewar Allied na Kudancin Faransa (wanda Clark ya yi adawa da shi), a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe a kusa da Gothic Line. Don kai hare-haren, rundunar sojojin Clark ta biyar (yanzu ta ƙunshi kawai na II Corps tare da Rukunin 34th da 85th Infantry Division a karkashin Manjo Janar Geoffrey Keyes, da kuma IV Corps tare da Rukunin 88th da 91st Infantry Division a karkashin Manjo Janar Willis D. Crittenberger da Rukunin Runduna na 1 a cikin ajiya) sun karfafa ta Birtaniya XIII Corps, a karkashin Lieutenant Janar Sidney Kirkman. Matakan farko sun tafi daidai har sai lokacin kaka ya fara kuma, kamar yadda ya yi a shekarar da ta gabata, ci gaba ya tsaya.