Point Clear is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

In the Pacific Theater, the United States utilized the Leapfrogging (strategy) as a means of capturing islands held by the Japanese that were of strategic or tactical advantage.

Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Thompson, oversaw Operation Ivory Soap from a suite in the Grand Hotel.

The nineteenth-century Alabama hotel housed soldiers and served as a maritime training facility training troops in skills including swimming, special calisthenics, marching, drill, navigation, ship identification, signaling, cargo handling, ship orientation, sail making and amphibious operations.

The training these troops received thanks to Operation Ivory Soap allowed the soldiers to help save countless lives and aircraft.

[7][8] From as early as the 1800s, wealthy families from Mobile, New Orleans and across the United States chose to spend their summers in Point Clear.

Clear residents believed they were escaping to what was deemed as "good air" because of the daily breeze off Mobile Bay.