Wayne played Sergeant Stryker in "Sands of" this island that was later featured in a pair of 2006 films
In 'Sands of Iwo Jima' (1949), set during World War Two, hard-bitten 
sergeant John M. Stryker (Wayne) earns the enmity of the recruits he .... Wayne 
plays the same character he does in all of his movies, so you know what to 
expect.