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This is Daniel Lawrence but in the Biafran army he was known as 'Pampas'. He is a mullato born to a British woman from Liverpool and a Biafran Ogoja father from Ikom who was a sailor. 
His mother died of Malaria during her first visit to Nigeria and his father later died in a shipwreck. As an orphan he lived in Ọnịcha with his paternal uncle and worked as a young driver in his uncle's business.
When the war broke out, Pampas quickly volunteered to serve in the Biafran Army at barely 17 years of age.
He was soon fighting as a tank driver in a Panhard armoured car captured from the enemy at Ọnịcha.
He was soon fighting as a tank driver in a Panhard armoured car captured from the enemy at Ọnịcha.
This is August Harvey Martin. He died tragically at Uli in today‘s Anambra in 1968, just to save lives of Biafrans. ‘Augie’ as he was fondly called, was the First Black airline pilot in the USA& the First black American to attain the rank Of captain with a commercial airline.
He was a Tuskeegee Airman and worked for Seaboard World Airlines. He was passionately committed to the course of the Biafrans during their three year battle for survival (1967-1970) and was part of Humanitarian Aid flights and Biafra Airlift operations.
On 30th July 1968, while on leave from Seaboard World Airlines, Captain Martin volunteered to fly food and relief material in a mercy mission into the embattled and starved stronghold enclave of Biafra during the Biafra War.
Types of Ogbunigwe Produced by Biafran Scientists
* Flying Ogbunigwe (rocket): This is a multi-purpose non-guided rocket-propelled missile, first built as a ground-to-air missile, to prevent attack on Enugwu Airport. It was later used as ground-to-ground, ground-to-ship missile,
* Flying Ogbunigwe (rocket): This is a multi-purpose non-guided rocket-propelled missile, first built as a ground-to-air missile, to prevent attack on Enugwu Airport. It was later used as ground-to-ground, ground-to-ship missile,
also anti-tank missiles. It was produced in different sizes and types. The missiles were generally about 2 meters long, 33 cm in diameter, electrically ignited, propelled by rocket fuel, and launched from a specially constructed launch pad or stand.
The missiles also carried a conventional high explosive warhead with a design based on the Munroe effect. Smaller calibres were mounted for launch in series on platforms similar to the Russian Katyusha rocket launcher (Stalin`s organ)& used by the Biafrans in place of artillery.
