Searching for Halifax NP711
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.
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Cast
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
