Maj. Gen. Gowon Takes A Ride in A Helicopter Seized From Biafran Forces | February 1968 скачать в хорошем качестве

Maj. Gen. Gowon Takes A Ride in A Helicopter Seized From Biafran Forces | February 1968

Wednesday, February 14th 1968. Footage of Major-General Yakubu Gowon, the leader of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria inspecting and then taking a brief ride in a 5-seater Bristol Westland Helicopter on the grounds of Dodan Barracks in Lagos. With Gowon were Rear Admiral Joseph Wey, the Chief of Naval Staff; the Commissioner for Finance, Chief Obafemi Awolowo; the Commissioner for Communication, Alhaji Aminu Kano, and other senior military officers including the Chief of Air Staff, Lt. Colonel Shittu Alao. Source of footage: Reuters News Archive. Note: The helicopter was captured from Biafran forces at Udi, where a helicopter base was located, in either late January or early February 1968. It was captured intact when troops of the 1st Division overran the place and the fleeing Biafrans left it behind. The helicopter and a few others were impounded from Bristows by the Biafrans for their air force. Bristows personnel, who refused to operate their helicopters for the Biafrans, had insisted on being evacuated to Nigeria. The helicopter was flown over to the Nigerian side by a South African mercenary named Ares Klootwyk, who flew it from Udi to Enugu on 2nd February and then from Enugu to Makurdi, via Oturkpo on the following day. Four days later, on 7th February 1968, Klootwyk flew it from Makurdi to Benin and on to Lagos Airport in Ikeja. The Federal side gave it a paint over and brought it into the service of its air force as NAF510. See: https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/287... 2. Colonel Shittu Alao, the Chief of the Air Staff would die the following year in a plane crash. See: Colonel Shittu Alao (1937-1969) https://adeyinkamakinde.blogspot.com/...