- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (28 Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0750913274
- ISBN-13: 978-0750913270
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Tail Gunner, first published in 1943, is one man's first-hand account of the part he played in RAF Bomber Command's fledgling bomber offensive between August 1940 and December 1941. Richard Rivaz modest but vivid narrative reveals what it was like to be part of a heavy bomber crew flying first Whitleys and then Halifaxes with No. 102 and No. 35 Squadrons.
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Richard Rivaz was born in India in 1908 and on his return to England studied painting at the Royal College of Art. He volunteered for the RAF in 1940, and trained as an air gunner. At the end of the war he was collecting material for a history of RAF Transport Command when, on 13 October 1945, the Liberator in which he was a passenger caught fire on take off from Brussels, killing all on board.
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It is amazing this contemporary account of world war 2 air warfare has no reviews and is little known. I think it knocks spots off Hilary's lauded Last Enemy. Rivaz deals with a brief period in the early days of the Bomber Command offensive flying Whitelys and Halifax's. His descriptive writing is first class, you get a real sense of the world in which he was living and flying in an unsensational way. The time spent on an upside dingy in the North Sea awaiting rescue is particularly harrowing because of the under stated way he describes the horror of the situation. Rivaz does not skirt recognition of the death and destruction that the bomber raids were doing to people, unlike many accounts. He also draws an interesting picture of the young Leonard Cheshire before he achieved fame, Cheshire also writes a brief intro to the book.
If you have any interest in understanding humanity or a more general interest in what it was like to fly combat missions in the war don`t miss out on this gem.
It is tragic that having survived the war Rivaz died in a Flying Fortress accident in 1945, he could have made a career in my view as a writer. This brief book is that good.
If you have any interest in understanding humanity or a more general interest in what it was like to fly combat missions in the war don`t miss out on this gem.
It is tragic that having survived the war Rivaz died in a Flying Fortress accident in 1945, he could have made a career in my view as a writer. This brief book is that good.
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Well written and enjoyable to read. Condition very good clean and not marked or ripped. Delivered quickly. Will read it again when I get it back from friends who borrowed it. Anyone who enjoys personal accounts of this type will enjoy this book
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29 Nov 2003
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An excellent account, modestly written, by a very brave man. Worth reading to get an insight into what being a tail gunner was like -exposed and lonely!
Read this then go to see the Halifax being restored at the RCAF Museum in Trenton.
Read this then go to see the Halifax being restored at the RCAF Museum in Trenton.
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