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Biafran Air Force commanders were Chude Sokey and later Godwin Ezeilo Ezeilo, [10] who had trained with the Royal Canadian Air Force. [11] Its early inventory included two B-25 Mitchells , two B-26 Invaders , (one piloted by Polish World War II ace Jan Zumbach , known also as John Brown), [ 12 ] a converted DC-3 and one Dove .
This is a list of equipment in service with the former Biafran Armed Forces. A considerable number of Czechoslovakian weapons were reportedly purchased in 1967, though Czechoslovakia officially denied a sale of weapons to the Biafran Armed Forces. [citation needed]
The 4th Commando Brigade was a unit of the Biafran Armed Forces. The brigade was created by order of Colonel C. Odumegwu Ojukwu in April 1968. [1] The unit consisted of five battalions, one being Marines. The brigade was led by Rolf Steiner. His deputies were George Norbiato, Arman Ianarelli (Ahoada strike group), John Erasmus (Abaliki strike ...
The Vancouver Barracks was the first United States Army base located in the Pacific Northwest, established in 1849, in what is now contemporary Vancouver, Washington. [2] It was built on a rise 20 feet (6.1 m) above the Fort Vancouver fur trading station established by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).
The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 16 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN). [30]
Biafran Research and Production or Research and Production (RAP) was a scientific and engineering research institution of the Republic of Biafra that researched and manufactured military technology for the Biafran Armed Forces during the Nigerian Civil War. [1]
Timothy Onwuatuegwu (? – 15 January 1970) was a Nigerian military officer and later a Major in the Biafran Armed Forces. He was a leading military figure in the Nigerian Civil War and a participant in the 1966 Nigerian coup d'etat .
Following the fall of Enugu, a group of retreating Biafran soldiers were fighting rearguard action against a battalion of heavily armed Nigerian troops at the Ugwuoba bridge along the old Enugu-Awka road. As the ammunition of the Biafran troops was exhausted their commander ordered them, as a last resort, to adapt the use of the Ogbunigwe ...