Searching for Halifax NP711
Title:
Searching for Halifax NP711
Quality:
HD
Released:
Jan 31, 2023
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Casts:
Nicholas Wagner, Rob Leicester Wagner, Jane Gulliford-Lowes, Michelle Lee, Christina Parry, Dany Poitras, Rainer Hanewald, Erik Wieman
Synopsis 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.
- Nicholas Wagner
- Rob Leicester Wagner
- Jane Gulliford-Lowes
- Michelle Lee
- Christina Parry
- Dany Poitras
- Rainer Hanewald
- Erik Wieman