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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Scatterable Minefields
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Date: 21 Feb 90 02:31:24 GMT
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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)

In article <14125@cbnews.ATT.COM> bash@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (thomas.w.basham) writes:
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>From: bash@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (thomas.w.basham)
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>One effective but inhumane method I've heard of is herding
>animals front of the troops to clear the way.  I guess in some 
>instances "insignificant" people have been used in this manner.
>I'm not very fond of this approach.

I have heard (but have no documentation) that the Dutch had German POWs
clear minefields on Dutch soil after WW2.  In order to be sure the fields
had been properly cleared, the Dutch had the Germans do the first plowing
after they said all the mines were out . . .

     --Hal

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