Originally Posted by
TheTexan
Described where? By the 140 yr old grandma?
Disclaimer: I have read about 4% of this thread so I may have missed it
One of the eyewitnesses to the firebombs was Buck Colbert Franklin.
http://fly.historicwings.com/2017/02...bing-of-tulsa/
“I could see planes circling in mid-air. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building. Down East Archer, I saw the old Mid-Way hotel on fire, burning from its top, and then another and another and another building began to burn from their top.”
“Lurid flames roared and belched and licked their forked tongues into the air. Smoke ascended the sky in thick, black volumes and amid it all, the planes — now a dozen or more in number — still hummed and darted here and there with the agility of natural birds of the air.”
“The side-walks were literally covered with burning turpentine balls. I knew all too well where they came from, and I knew all too well why every burning building first caught from the top. I paused and waited for an opportune time to escape. ‘Where oh where is our splendid fire department with its half dozen stations?’ I asked myself. ‘Is the city in conspiracy with the mob?'”
He lived from from 1879 to 1960. (See: https://www.blackpast.org/african-am...ert-1879-1960/)
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