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Australian Story – The Last Commando – Part 2

By June 16, 2014January 21st, 2015No Comments

Introduced by The Honourable Quentin Bryce AD CVO

This week’s program goes to the ‘tip of the spear’ with elite commandos trapped in a lethal and protracted gun battle in Afghanistan.

“It’s not like TV, it’s not a movie, this is for real” says army chaplain Padre John Sanderson.

Earlier this year Corporal Cameron Baird was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his raw courage in the heat of combat.

In this concluding episode, his commando colleagues provide a rare, poignant and riveting account of those fatal hours…

 

Watch “The Last Commando – Part 2” here