The miniscule Biafran Air Force had a few successes, including attacks on several Nigerian installations. One of these targeted a Nigerian Air Force base in the MidWest, where an Illyushin-28 (pictured here), originally flown by Egyptian pilots, was destroyed on the ground. (Photo courtesy of Michael Draper, author of Shadows: Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria, 1967–1970)