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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.