Wings Without Weapons - A Wartime Pilot's Story, by Humphrey Wynn

Published by Woodfield in 2008, 140 pages. Paperback (N4456)

From the rear side cover: In this entertaining autobiographical account, Humphrey Wynn recalls his airborne experiences in World War 2 as a pilot in the UK, Europe, India and Africa, including a stint on the West African Reinforcement Route, ferrying aircraft to be flown by the front-line squadrons of the Middle East Air Force against the enemy in the Western Desert and the Mediterranean.

The route stretched from Takoradi on the Gold Coast (nod Ghana) via a string of staging posts to Cairo in Egypt - a distance of around 3,700 miles - and had been set up to enable the delivery of aircraft to the front line squadrons without enemy interference, the alternative of doing so via the Mediterranean being extremely hazardous! Dissasembled aircraft were delivered in crates by sea to the docks of takoradi, where they were reassembled, flight tested and flown across the African continent....

The condition of the book is generally excellent. The covers are clean and bright, the spine is tight and intact, and all pages are clean, intact, unblemished and tightly bound - the book looks like it has never been read!