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.
Cast
Nicholas Wagner
as Voice
Rob Leicester Wagner
as Self
Jane Gulliford-Lowes
as Self
Michelle Lee
as Self
Christina Parry
as Voice
Dany Poitras
as Self
Rainer Hanewald
as Self
Erik Wieman
as Self
Derek Earp
as Self
Michael Trautermann
as Self
