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This beautiful co-star has only two credits for her career, but served a much greater role in life, as the wife of Louis L'Amour, who, together with her sons, managed Mr. L'Amour's catalogue! Kathy married L'Amour in 1956, and traveled throughout the world with him, until his death in 1988. She and her son Beau maintain the Louis L'Amour website.

The production values on this episode, utilizing an abandoned mine in the California desert, rate far above the usual studio sets typical of this series. I do think the long drive in Pete's convertible under the desert sun with the top down may have strained credulity a bit, especially with the passengers dark suit and tie, but as the early morning pit stop for gas may ameliorate this concern for heat, the episode does not really give a time-line for the trip.

The real surprise, however, was the casting of Gordon Oliver in a critical role. Mr. Oliver was in fact the executive producer for all 114 episodes of the series, while also producing many popular shows of this period. I guess it was a busman's holiday for him.

Otherwise, I agree with the previous reviewers comments as to this episode.

God bless the USMC. Many of the young men in this film paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country on lonely islands in the Pacific, and will forever live in our hearts and memories. When viewed in the context of the horrible and devious tactics of the enemy (witness the fate of the marines on Wake Island), criticism of the contents of this film, and the impression to be made on a still grieving American population (Pearl Harbor occurred only a few months prior to the making of this film) is greatly misplaced and wholly unwarranted. If only our 2014 political leadership had the same commitment to resolution of the world's threats as the greatest generation.