The band was in a coach,
a big double decker type coach.
It was going from RAF Rheindahlen down to
south of Germany to Bavaria to the RAF
winter survival school
and somewhere along the line
the coach was in collision
with a tanker carrying aviation fuel.
Aviation fuel is far more volatile than
19 musicians,
driver lost their lives.
Yeah
If you can imagine a town, small town in the middle of another
country most of people in the town don't
I found they didn't speak German they
didn't go off to the German shops
it was a German you're there and you.
They closed ranks almost
closed ranks and protected
which was yeah,
