| Description |
1 online resource (128 pages) |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
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 37. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Rivaz, Richard.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
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Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rivaz, Richard. Tail gunner. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub., 1996. 0750913274 (DLC)97156864 |
| Standard No. |
9780752469690 |
| ISBN |
9780752469690 (e-pub) |
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