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Feb. 26 R.A.F. Rescue and Survival School, Thorney Island, Hants The R.A.F. Rescue and Survival School at Thorney Island, Hants. opened on November 1, 1955, trains, in three-week courses, rescue officers from R.A.F. units and squadrons throughout the service, in the latest rescue and survival techniques used on land and sea by the R.A.F. throughout the world. Photo Shows: Officer trainees at the R.A.F. Rescue and Survival School build snow-shoes from tree twigs and branches, as they would have to go where they stranded and had to start trekking across the snow to safety
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