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Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector

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Detectors were quickly manufactured and shipped to North Africa, where German commander Erwin Rommel had ordered his troops to build a defensive network of land mines and barbed wire that he called the Devils Gardens. Kosackis detectors were first used in the Second Battle of El Alamein , in Egypt, in October and November of 1942.

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