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Searching for Halifax NP711

  • January 2023
  • 54mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Rob Leicester Wagner,

    Sabria Salama Jawhar,

    Starring

    Nicholas Wagner,

    Jane Gulliford-Lowes,

    Michelle Lee,

    Christina Parry

    ...

    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.