Searching for Halifax NP711
31/01/2023
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.
Movie Information
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
Francis Gieringer
as Voice
Don Sanderson
as Self
Megan Kraynak
as Self
Werner Raubenheimer
as Self
Bettina Huenerfauth
as Self
Jennifer Mallory
as Self
August Walter
as Self
Nels P.H. Andersen
as Archival Photos
William J. Gilmore
as Archival Photos
Donald M. Sanderson
as Archival Photos
Donald E. Sherman
as Archival Photos
Reginald B. Smith
as Archival Photos
Richard L. Wagner
as Archival Photos
William W. Wagner
as Archival Photos
James Wilson
as Archival Photos
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
