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Feb 23, 2024 · Frank Wright has a unique background as one of the original Marine Raiders. (Task & Purpose composite image). Frank S. Wright left for U.S. Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, at the...
Feb 9, 2024 · February 9, 2024 / 12:38 AM PST / CBS Sacramento. LODI -- Corporal Frank S. Wright, 98, will proudly tell you that he quit high school in 1942 to join the military during World War II. The...
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Nov 28, 2022 · Frank recently celebrated his 97th birthday and is the youngest Marine Raider alive. This year marks 77 years since World War II ended on Sep 2, 1945, and since the battle of Iwo Jima ended on March 26, 1945. Frank wrote a book, detailing some of his time in the Marine Corps.
Nov 2, 2022 · Nov 2, 2022. 1 of 2. Lodi resident Frank Wright took a trip back in time last month when he returned to southern California to revisit the birth of his military career. Wright, 97, enlisted with the United States Marine Corps in 1942 at the age of 16 and completed basic boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego.
Oct 31, 2022 · Ninety-seven year old Frank Wright is such a survivor, enlisting in the US Marine Corps a month after Pearl Harbor in 1942, and fighting across the Pacific Theater. This is his story…how he was recalled to boot camp, eighty years after enlisting as sixteen year old recruit.
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Apr 12, 2024 · (FOX40.COM) — A fundraising campaign has been launched to help send a World War II veteran from Northern California to visit the site of a battle he took part in during the war. Cpl. Frank...
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Frank J. Wright was a Marine Corps officer who led a daring attack on Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in 1945. He received the Navy Cross for his extraordinary heroism and aggressive fighting spirit.
