page_title: British commando frogmen
hierarchical_section_title: British commando frogmen
caption_attribution_description: A British navy frogman, here equiped with the well known Davis apparatus. Those men were the underwater experts who blasted a hole in the Nazi's Atlantic Wall to enable invasion craft to reach the Normandy beaches on D-Day.
context_page_description: Britain's commando frogman force is now the Special Boat Service, whose members are drawn largely from the Royal Marines. They perform various operations on land as well as in the water. Until the late 1990s, all members of the Special Air Service Boat Troop were trained as commando frogmen.
context_section_description: Britain's commando frogman force is now the Special Boat Service (SBS), whose members are drawn largely from the Royal Marines. They perform various operations on land as well as in the water. Until the late 1990s, all members of the Special Air Service (SAS) Boat Troop were trained as commando frogmen.
caption: British navy frogman in August 1945, here equipped with a Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set
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