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Searching for Halifax NP711 (2023)
Barbaric treatment of airmen suffering PTSD
Saw this film recently. It's hard to believe that the military had such a callous disregard for bomber airmen suffering from the severe stress being helpless sitting in a metal tube while big guns are shooting at them. As Searching for Halifax NP711 points out, if a bomber airman showed signs of stress or confessed to anyone his fears about flying operations, he would be labeled a coward and humiliated in front of his colleagues and probably would never fly again. The film says there was a 50 percent casualty rate among bomber air crews. No wonder so many men were petrified to fly. The is really a portrait of a single air crew and serves as a proxy for all RCAF and RAF air crews during World War 2. It's a personal story and it's effective because it's personal. But it's also damning of medical officers who ignored a real mental health crisis right under their noses.