abstract:Tarawa Beachhead is a 1958 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Columbia Pictures contract star Kerwin Mathews in his first leading role and the husband and wife team of Ray Danton and Julie Adams.
One of the riflemen in my platoon, a big muscular farm boy from South Dakota, had seen, strewn on the Tarawabeachhead, a string of guts twelve feet long belonging to the marine who, only seconds before the mortar blast, had been his best buddy.