The last flight
Subtitle: a pilot remembers the Air Force and the Biafran air attacks
By: Captain August Okpe
Publisher: Aeromax International Ltd.; Outskirts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9781432763404; 9781432711023
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Nigeria. Nigerian Air Force; Military Air pilots; Anecdotes; Officers; Tactical Air Command (Biafra); Aerial operations; Personal narratives; Military assistance; Nigeria; Biography; History
Other titles: Pilot remembers the Air Force and the Biafran air attacks
Notes: "The Biafran Chief Pilot breaks 40 years silence to reveal all!"

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Commendations for the last flight; title: In the beginning; title: Flight training; title: The Primary Flying School; title: The Royal Canadian Air Force Base; title: The Callaghans; title: The Chornenkis; title: The Award of the Royal Canadian Air Force Wings; title: The School of Instructional Technique; title: The Flight Instructors School; title: The Nigerian Air Force Tactical & Training Wing; title: United States Air Force; title: An agent provacateur; title: The first air disaster of the Nigerian Air Force; title: Weathering the turbulent diplomatic flight; title: The military coup d'etat; title: A counter coup; title: Operation Look Me I Look You; title: Fugitives from injustice; title: The Eastern Command; title: The arms bazaar; title: Get us an airplane - the first skyjack in Nigeria; title: Commencement of flight activity in the Eastern Command; title: Biafra - in the beginning; title: Icarus descending; title: The Nigerian attack; title: The Biafran helicopter attacks; title: Enter the bombers; title: The Fouga Magister fiasco; title: The hawkish dove; title: The horror of Flight 101; title: The simultaneous crash of the B25 & B26; title: Please destroy our bombers - "Operation Jefta; title: The BAF leadership and the loss of the DC3; title: Uli; title: Mini counter insurgency; title: Operation Biafran Babies; title: Port Harcourt - raiding the roost of the killer birds; title: Kaduna 6:30 PM 22nd May 1969; title: Benin: genocide became a clay pigeon; title: The Nigerian attack on Uga & Palace II; title: Enugu: "From the fury of the Norsemen ..."; title: Ughelli: Let there be darkness; title: Military honour; title: A scorched earth programme; title: Owerri - Ohoba: I will rocket our house if necessary; title: 26th June: The second Attack on Ohoba; title: Escravos: A befitting birthday present for the Count; title: The Portuguese influence; title: Libreville and the last Biafran hostile flights; title: The last flights - more air crew losses; title: The last flights - Allwell-Brown's death.