Last Battle of Hampton Gray


Last Battle of Hampton Gray

August 9, 1945: peace is imminent. A Canadian, Lt. Hampton Gray, leads eight Corsairs in an attack against Japanese military targets. To everyone's surprise he undertakes a suicidal assault on an armed escort ship. Posthumously, he's awarded the highest military honour: the Victoria Cross. In this definitive project, filmmaker Ian Herring journeys to make sense of Gray's final act and determine the meaning of heroism in peacetime.