Editing Polish mine detector (section)

{{Short description|WWII landmine detector}}
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[[File:MINE DETECTOR IN NORTH AFRICA 1942.jpg|thumb|Men of the Royal Engineers in North Africa demonstrate the use of a mine detector (August 1942)]]
[[File:Production of mine detectors UK, 1943.jpg|right|thumb|Mine Detectors being assembled (1943)]]
The '''Mine detector (Polish) Mark I''' ({{Langx|pl|wykrywacz min}}) was a [[metal detector]] for [[land mine|landmines]] developed during [[World War II]]. Initial work on the design had started in Poland but after the [[invasion of Poland]] by the Germans in 1939, and then the [[Fall of France]] in mid-1940, it was not until the winter of 1941–1942 that work was completed by Polish lieutenant [[Józef Kosacki]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maslen |first1=Stuart |title=Anti-personnel mines under humanitarian law : a view from the vanishing point |date=2001 |publisher=Intersentia |isbn=9789050951890 |pages=126–127}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hammond |first1=Bryn |title=El Alamein : the battle that turned the tide of the second World War |date=2012 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=9781780964539|quote=The first, and most important, was a reliable portable mine detector, of which the most noted example was invented by a Polish officer, Józef Stanisław Kosacki.}}</ref>