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Searching for Halifax NP711 (2023)
Directed by Rob Leicester Wagner
Overview
On February 21, 1945, the Royal Canadian Air Force Halifax bomber NP711 with a crew of seven men took off from the Linton-on-Ouse air base in England for a bombing raid over Worms, Germany. The bomber never made it to its target. The Halifax was struck by anti-aircraft fire and crashed into a mountainside near Leistadt, Germany. All crew members were killed. The crash was so horrific that the wreckage was strewn over 1,000 meters. Seventy-seven years later the wreckage was recovered and the site was deemed a gravesite for the perished crew. This documentary film examines the last days of the seven-member crew and the recovery of the wreckage of Halifax NP711.
Length 54 minutes
Actors
Nicholas Wagner | Rob Leicester Wagner | Jane Gulliford-Lowes | Michelle Lee | Christina Parry | Dany Poitras | Rainer Hanewald | Erik Wieman | Derek Earp | Michael Trautermann | Francis Gieringer | Don Sanderson | Megan Kraynak | Werner Raubenheimer | Bettina Huenerfauth | Jennifer Mallory | August Walter | Nels P.H. Andersen | William J. Gilmore | Donald M. Sanderson | Donald E. Sherman | Reginald B. Smith | Richard L. Wagner | William W. Wagner | James Wilson | Adolf Hitler