Old timers in Davao City still harbor a fading memory of a couple of places named ‘Clifford.’ Then, there was a movie house along Bonifacio Street, and there was a small plaza with the same name. A…
Old timers in Davao City still harbor a fading memory of a couple of places named ‘Clifford.’ Then, there was a movie house along Bonifacio Street, and there was a small plaza with the same name. Among ‘singer citizens’ , only a handful can remember after whom these places were named.
Col. Thomas Edgar Clifford Jr., nicknamed Jock, was a legend among his peers in football at West Point; he got his nickname from a popular children’s character, ‘Jocko the Monkey.’ Born in Covington, Virginia in 1911, he graduated from The Greenbrier Military School in 1931, and thereafter appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point that year.
Col. Clifford’s unit was one of the assault divisions in the Philippine invasion. After a brief vacation with his family, he caught up with his unit by wangling passage on a fast navy transport bound for Leyte, but his ship torpedoed in mid-voyage. Rescued, he was thereafter given the leadership of a new unit, the 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, in Leyte.
In the Mindanao campaign, Col. Clifford was assigned as head of the 19th Infantry Regiment, leading the final drive to free the city, negotiating some 192 kilometers before reaching Davao. But he did not live to see the liberation completed. On June 24, 1945, a day before Lt. General R. L. Eichelberger, 8th Army commander, declared the end of organized enemy resistance on Mindanao, he was mortally hit by Japanese mortar fire.
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