Searching for Halifax NP711
Searching for Halifax NP711
Release: 2023-01-31
·Runtime: 54m
Documentary
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
Dany Poitras
as Self
Rainer Hanewald
as Self
Erik Wieman
as Self
Derek Earp
as Self
Michael Trautermann
as Self
Don Sanderson
as Self
Werner Raubenheimer
as Self
Jennifer Mallory
as Self
August Walter
as Self
Adolf Hitler
as Self (archive footage)
Crew
Rob Leicester Wagner
Director
Nicholas Wagner
Music Consultant
Erik Wieman
Translator
Tatiana Riabinkina
Music Director
Zoe Gieringer
Editor
Michael Manousakis
Aerial Camera
Erik Wieman
Technical Advisor
Nicholas Wagner
Producer
Rob Leicester Wagner
Director of Photography
Rob Leicester Wagner
Writer