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Chargement... Tail Gunnerpar R. C. Rivaz
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The pilot used the journaling method to jot down memories of time spent in the service during World War II. The action jumps from scene to scene. There are numerous examples of missed transitional sentences and incomplete sentences. The format is reflective of the limited time military personnel had to relax between missions. Readers of military history will be interested in the combat scenes. The format and lack of notes make the book more indicative to military historical fiction than a memoir. I received this book through a promotional giveaway. Although encouraged, I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
First published in 1943, this is the gripping story of one man's involvement in RAF Bomber Command's fledgling offensive between August 1940 and December 1941. Dick Rivaz was tail gunner to Leonard Cheshire, one of the most famous RAF pilots of the Second World War, flying in Whiteleys with 102 Squadron and latterly in Halifaxes with 35 Squadron. Unique among wartime memoirs, Tail Gunner was written within months of the events described, with all the immediacy of being at the very heart of the action. Rivaz graphically describes his experiences on night bombing attacks against heavily defended enemy targets like Duisberg, Dusseldorf and Essen, and relates a dramatic shoot-out with German fighters over La Rochelle in broad daylight during July 1941. Rivaz reveals the fine spirit of comradeship which developed in RAF bomber crews during the Second World War. Having survived the war, including two rescues from the North Sea, he was killed in October 1945, aged just thirty-seven. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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During his tour, he twice ended up in the English Channel when his wounded bomber was too damaged to make it back to Blighty. The first time, the Whitley crashed into a cold stormy Channel where survival was almost impossible but a last minute rescue saved him and his fellow crew members. The pilot had gone down with the Whitley bomber when the life raft blew too far away for him to swim to it.
The second crash was in warm weather in a calm sea witnessed by two other bomber crews who stayed with them and focused the rescue teams on to the spot. There are photos in the book of the Halifax ditching and floating which was rare for a Halifax that crash landed in water.
One other important facts Rivaz was proud of was his relationship with famous RAF bomber pilot, Leonard Cheshire, VC with whom he flew a number of times and who wrote the Foreword for the re-issue of this book. ( )