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Frank Wright

Frank S. Wright is one of the last living original WWII Marine Raiders, an honorary Sergeant of Marines who fought at Guadalcanal, Guam, and Iwo Jima and authored Battles in the Pacific.

Oct 15, 2026

84:30
How did you leave Iwo Jima?
84:32
It was terrible.
84:36
Anyway, we cleaned those out and we cleaned, uh, just as we was going off of the, uh, off of the hill before we got into the, the 3, 280, 382, 382 I think it was, was when I got shot.
85:09
Anyway, he, we went through that same way.
85:15
And, and all the women that were killed and stuff and I think my own opinion on it, Japanese used the women as they called them comfort girls.
85:44
I think after we took two of those hills, I think our officers, head officers took them as comfort girls too.
86:01
I think that's the reason that...

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93:56
What was it like when you came home?

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