Sepik Pilot: Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, DSO, DFC by James Sinclair

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Foxing marks on right and top foredges. Some preliminary pages and end pages have foxing marks. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine and is now in a protective sleeve. Binding is still very good.

Sepik Pilot is the story of a man and aeroplanes of desperate days in the Western Desert during World War 2 when the tomahawks and Kittyhawk of young Australian fighter pilots fought the Germans and Italians in their Messerschmitts and Macchis of New Guinea and of the birth and death of a tiny air charter company.

It is the personal story of Wing Commander Bobby Giles and Gibbes Sepik Airways and the story of the bush pilots of post war New Guinea and the part they played in the settlement of the Sepik and Central Highlands.