Searching for Halifax NP711
31/01/2023
1h

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.
Cast


Nicholas Wagner
Voice


Rob Leicester Wagner
Self


Jane Gulliford-Lowes
Self
Michelle Lee
Self
Christina Parry
Voice


Dany Poitras
Self


Rainer Hanewald
Self


Erik Wieman
Self


Derek Earp
Self


Michael Trautermann
Self
Francis Gieringer
Voice


Don Sanderson
Self
Megan Kraynak
Self


Werner Raubenheimer
Self
Bettina Huenerfauth
Self


Jennifer Mallory
Self


August Walter
Self
Nels P.H. Andersen
Archival Photos
William J. Gilmore
Archival Photos
Donald M. Sanderson
Archival Photos
Donald E. Sherman
Archival Photos
Reginald B. Smith
Archival Photos
Richard L. Wagner
Archival Photos
William W. Wagner
Archival Photos
James Wilson
Archival Photos


Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
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