[1] In the summer of 1917, Clear was ordered to attend Reserve Officers' Training Corps on the grounds of Harvard University.

[2] During that time, as a "young man," Clear was "tricked" into an arranged fight with a jiu-jitsu fighter in the Japanese Army.

[3] After the bout, General Kazushige Ugaki arranged for Clear to teach 300 of his men the basics of American boxing.

With regards to our junior officers, occidental prestige rises or falls on such small things as physical combat between two individuals.

"[4] RKO made a film in 1943 called Behind the Rising Sun starring Robert Ryan, portraying the role of Warren Clear.

[1] Also in 1928, Clear and his wife built a house together in Pebble Beach, California and joined the Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

[1] In August 1940, the Salinas, California Chamber of Commerce made Clear their staff assistant secretary in charge of military affairs.

[1] In April 1941, Clear was ordered back to Washington, D.C., to report directly to Henry L. Stimson, the United States Secretary of War.

[8][9] He was in the islands in this capacity during the invasion by the Imperial Japanese military, having to resort to eating horses and pack mules to stay alive for several months in the jungles with his men.

[12] The phrase became popular after an article Clear wrote in Reader's Digest discussing the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese and the defence of the Bataan Peninsula; where he attributes it to a Sergeant.

[13] Clear escaped the Philippines by meeting the submarine USS Trout on a rubber dinghy and sailed on board to another location.

However, the airplane carrying him to Australia was shot down by Japanese bombers, and Clear had to compose his entire mission report to the COI from memory.

[7] In his famous recounting of the events at Bataan in Reader's Digest, Clear wrote: "As long as they could pull a trigger or fix a bayonet, our men held their ground.

In 1949, with the help of a friend and art dealer named Myron Oliver, Clear opened and read the contents of a message in a bottle which he had found on the beach fifteen years earlier – and the pair of men were startled to discover that this was the original land claim of Francis Drake, which officially claimed the Californian coastline in the name of Elizabeth I.

FRANCIS FLETCHER Scri"[16] Clear took the bottle and its contents to the Smithsonian Institution, where it was also studied by experts from the British Museum.