The Last Bastion - The year is 1941 - as the dark cloud of World War II hovers perilously over the Southern Hemisphere the people of Australia brace themselves for an uncertain future when Japanese forces get ready to invade.The Last Bastion goes behind closed doors and into the minds of the big decision makers world dignitaries Franklin Roosevelt (Warren Mitchell), Winston Churchill (Timothy West), Australia's John Curtin (Michael Blakemore), and General Douglas MacArthur (Robert Vaughn). From the producers of Attack Force Z, The Highest Honour features an ensemble cast including John Howard (Packed To The Rafters), Steve Bisley (Red Hill), Tony Bonner (The Lighthorsemen), Harold Hopkins (Gallipoli), and Vincent Ball (Breaker Morant). Theirs was a mission that would not only test Z Special's conviction and dedication to one another but the heroic opportunity to garner the highest honour. The Krait penetrated deep into Japanese held territory, covering over 17,000 kilometres, to attempt its most deadly mission of all. In an amazing display of courage and determination, Z Special carried out 284 undercover missions in the south-west Pacific area, the most famous being two daring raids codenamed 'Jaywick' and 'Rimau'.In the first of these, the 'Krait', a captured Japanese fishing boat, set out from Australia on the longest range seaborne raid ever undertaken in the history of war. Comprised of volunteers of all branches of the Allied Forces, Z Special Forces was a secret operations unit of the Australian Army during World War II and came under the direct command of General Douglas MacArthur. The Highest Honour - The Highest Honour (also known as Heroes of the Krait) tells the remarkable true story of Australia's involvement in one of the greatest raids in wartime history.One hundred and fifty years of hurricane strikes and storm surge have all but obliterated the great bastion, but restored works and pounding surf still make it a battlefield site worth seeing. In 1961, it was named a National Historic Landmark and soon after was absorbed into the North Carolina state park system. In the early 20 th Century veterans of the great battle lobbied Congress to make the site a National Battlefield Park, but attempts failed due to a lack of funds and political will. Though never proven, the blast was most likely caused by celebrating Union victors who entered the powder magazines with lit torches. Lee’s starving men in the trenches of Petersburg, VA, some 250 miles away had no hope of supplies reaching them via sea after its capitulation.Ī day after the fort was in Union hands a huge explosion rocked the massive dune walls adorned by wooden abatis killing some 200 Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners. When it fell into Union hands on January 15, 1865, after a desperate attack both by Union sea mortars and land forces, Confederate General Robert E. The Confederacy’s greatest bastion arguably was Fort Fisher located some 15 miles south of Wilmington, NC, on the ocean exposed dune-scapes of far eastern reaches of the Tar Heel State. North Face of Fort Fisher near Wilmington, NC, as a hurricane lashes the Atlantic coast. Without Concealment, Without Compromise.Matchless Organization: Nonsurgeon Employees of the Surgeon General’s Office.Matchless Organization: Medical Officers in the Regular Confederate Army.
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