FLYING GOOSE PRODUCTIONS
Searching for Halifax NP711
The bomber air crew and film cast & crew
On February 21, 1945 six Royal Canadian Air Force airmen and one British Royal Air Force crew member took off from Linton-on-Ouse Air Base in England in a Halifax MkVII bomber for a raid over Worms, Germany. They never returned. This multiple award-winning documentary features the story of the seven men who lost their lives and the recovery of the aircraft's wreckage 73 years later near Leistadt, Germany.
Flight Lt. Donald M. Sanderson
Affiliation: Royal Canadian Air Force
Age: 22
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: Haileybury, Ontario, Canada
Marital Status: Unmarried, one son
Education: High School
Religion: Church of England
Pre-War Occupation: Student
Enlistment Date: 9 July 1941
Flight Engineer James Wilson
Affiliation: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 20:
Nationality: Scottish
Hometown: Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Marital Status: Single
Enlistment Date: 1944
Bomb Aimer/Flt. Off. William J. Gilmore
Affiliation: Royal Canadian Air Force
Age: 32
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Marital Status: Married
Religion: Presbyterian
Education: College business school degree
Pre-War Occupation: Unemployed
Enlistment Date: 1 October 1942
W/O Air Gnr/Flt. Sgt. William W. Wagner
Affiliation: Royal Canadian Air Force
Age: 22
Nationality: American
Hometown: Napanee, Ontario, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Education: Some College
Religion: Protestant
Pre-war Occupation: Bank teller
Enlistment Date: 5 November 1942
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Air Gnr/Flt. Sgt. Nels Peter Helin Andersen
Affiliation: Royal Canadian Air Force
Age: 21
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: Tyndall, Manitoba, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Religion: Lutheran
Education: Primary School
Occupation: Farmer
Enlistment Date: 10 January 1942
Nav/Flt. Off. Reginald Bertram Smith
Affiliation: Royal Canadian Air Force
Age: 33
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Education: High School
Religion: Roman Catholic
Enlistment Date: 9 September 1942
Air Gner/Flt. Sgt. Donald Edison Sherman
Affiliation: Royal Canadian Air Force
Age: 20
Nationality: Canadian
Hometown: Kingsville, Ontario, Canada
Marital Status: Single
Education: Two years of high school
Religion: United Church of Canada
Pre-War Occupation: Laborer
Enlistment Date: 25 November 1942
Rob Leicester Wagner, director, and cousin of W/O William W. Wagner
Sabria Salama Jawhar, executive producer
Nicholas Wagner, producer
Selena Wagner, producer
Tatiana Riabinkina, music composer
Zoe Gieringer, editor
Erik Wieman, researcher/technical consultant
Jane Gulliford-Lowes, historian
Derek Earp, RAF pilot (retired), aircraft historian
