Interview with WWII Iwo Jima Marine Raider Frank Wright 

Frank was 81 years old when this interview was done...it was summarized and included in Distant Thunder: Recollections of Lodi Area Veterans (Ed. Dr. Jennifer Holden/Blue Moon Press c.2004).
00:00 Start
00:55 Raider Battalion
05:32 Why did you join
08:40 Boot camp
12:18 San Diego CA & Astoria OR
13:47 Joining the Raiders
19:25 Raider training
22:20 First combat
30:51 Guadacanal & Guam
46:16 Iwo Jima
1:15:08 Purple Heart
1:17:35 Finding Katherine (again)
1:21:54 Mental ward/death of Roosevelt/going home
1:27:49 Discharge
1:31:40 Katherine/marriage
1:39:22 End