New Hotel - At No. 2 Fighter Wing Grostenquin, France, the aircraft fuel had to be transported from the railroad siding in Folquemont to the Air Base. One hot summer afternoon in July, 1955 a refuelling tender backfired and caught fire in the center of this small town. The driver panicked and jumped out of the cab and the tender ran into the front door of the local hotel...(it was full of Frenchmen drinking beer). As the Air Division Fire Marshal, I was appointed to the Board Of Inquiry to investigate this fire. We spent weeks interviewing through an interpreter all these Frenchmen's claimed burns and smoke damage. The town got a new hotel at the expense of the Canadian Government.

By Archie Graham, Flight Lieutenant, Retired