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ZUM4915342: Feb. 12, 1954 - Royal Marine Commandos Undergoing” Arctic” Training Course In The Scottish Highlands: London and Chatham Royal Marine Commandos are undergoing a” survival training” course under Zero temperatures on the top of the Cairngorm Mountains near Inverness. The men attending the special course are practising snow warfare high on the icy 4,000 feet peaks in winds which can reach more than 70 miles an hour. They are spending nights on the mountains in snow holes in the ground and in tents, while learning mountain navigation. During the day they are taught such things as step cutting and glissading (sliding down icy slopes). Before going to Scotland the men had a toughening-up courses at the Commando School at Bickleigh near Plymouth. The object of the training is to supply a neuclus of personnel accustomed to operating tactically under snow conditions. During the course they learn to ski- use snow shoes etc / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928241: May 05, 1954 - The” Komet”: This instrument similar to mailed fist is a new life-saving apparatus for bathing and swimming people being in emergency. the life-buoy is thrown from a rock-apparatus till to a distance of 300 meters. The saved then is drawn to the land by a line fixed at the life-buoy. Already one man had been saved at the coast of the island Baltrum by this first apparatus of the test / Bridgeman Images