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[Mark in Rochester]

Wayne’s performance as Sgt. John M. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima stuck with people in a way that made him proud. The story follows his character, whose men under his command hate him, but they’ll need all of the skills that they learned from him. They push through the beaches amid the war, relying on his training to keep them alive.

“I know the Marines, and all the American armed forces were quite proud of my portrayal of Stryker, the Marine sergeant in Iwo,” Wayne said. “At an American Legion convention in Florida, General Douglas MacArthur told me, ‘You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself.'”

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