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The "Klan Air Force" was a retconned piece of agitprop.
If you read the accounts, there may have been one or two, but Back Alley Trash made up a story about firebombing racist air force. The wikipedia article only mentions a 2015 account "found in the basement" that reads like some SJW wrote it a month ago. That "account" claims that there were more airplanes than were within 50 miles, that somehow, magically, all formed up, got airborne, all with enough time to make incendiary bombs.
This is just the BLM noble thug narrative, applied to a response of a rape and massacre by the black citizens BEFORE the race riot.
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I read there was a couple of planes after the riot doing surveys of the damage.
Six airplanes circled the Greenwood area during the morning hours of June 1.
What they were doing, and why there were so many, has long been a matter of passionate debate. Many people believe they were used to shoot at people on the ground and bomb Greenwood.
Officials said the small craft, generally thought to be two-seat, single-engine Curtis “Jenny” biplanes, were merely keeping track of activities on the ground and relaying the information through written messages dropped in weighted metal cylinders attached to streamers.
Many people believed city officials were behind the burning of Greenwood, and the explanation that the squadron of planes was only used for surveillance struck some as suspiciously thin.
Certainly the planes had a great psychological impact on many. For example, Mary Jones Parrish wrote about them in her account, as did prominent attorney B.C. Franklin in his.
The Defender story said the planes dropped “nitroglycerin on buildings, setting them afire.”
But nitroglycerin is an explosive, not an incendiary. It is also highly unstable and dangerous.
That has caused some to speculate that something like Molotov cocktails might have been used, or “turpentine balls” — rags soaked in flammable liquid and wrapped around the head of a stick.
There are several practical reasons why trying to light and throw incendiary devices from an open cockpit airplane of that era would seem a difficult, dangerous and even foolish idea.
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