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Author Sinclair, James, 1928-

Title Sepik pilot : Wing Commander Bobby Gibbes, D.S.O., D.F.C. / James Sinclair
Published Melbourne : Lansdowne, 1971

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 W'PONDS  629.13092 Sin/Spw  AVAILABLE
Description 189 pages : illustrations, maps on lining papers. ; 26 cm
Contents The Royal Australian Air Force -- The making of a fighter pilot -- Duels with the Luftwaffe -- Retreat -- El Alamein -- The end in Africa -- Darwin -- Morotai -- Court martial -- Birth of an Air company -- Gibbes Sepik Airways -- Early days -- The first crisis -- Some pilots had narrow excapes -- The 1952 crisis -- Southern Highlands -- The Telefolmin Massacre -- The Junkers story -- The salvage of BUW and BNE -- The end of Gibbes Sepik Airways
Notes Maps on lining papers
Subject Gibbes, Bobby, 1916-2007.
Gibbes, Robert Henry Maxwell, 1916-
Gibbes, Robert Henry Maxwell, 1916-2007
Gibbes Sepik Airways
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Papua New Guinea -- History.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Papua New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Australian.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- New Guinea.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 75856110
ISBN 0701803231