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Stories categorised in 'No Such Thing As An Easy Ride. AN RAF Memoir by John Maunsell'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
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No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 1

29TH Operational Training Unit at Bruntingthorpe, this was the unit where groups of Pilots, Navigators,...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 2

The pilot had to cope with two very powerful engines and the snags of taking off and climbing with heavy...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 3

OPERATIONAL ORGANISATION During the day the ground crew would have checked the aircraft and the armourers...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 4

Munich was a distant target in southern Germany which had never been seriously attacked and where the...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 5

After a trip of only 5 hours 40 mins our plane, "M Mike", was first hack to East Kirkby, flying...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 6

After all I knew that I must have. landed in Belgium or possibly Holland, both occupied by the Germans and...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 7

Before the Normandy invasion, there was a well organized escape line in Western Europe in which downed...

No Such Thing As An Easy Ride - Part 8

The day before I was due to fly out to India en route for Burma I received a phone message saying that...

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