Lieutenant Józef Stainisław Kosacki (West Sands)

Lieutenant Józef Stainisław Kosacki (West Sands)

In September 1941 the British Army launched a competition to develop a landmine detector. Hearing of this competition, and of a fatal accident on a beach in nearby Arbroath where a Polish Army patrol was killed by a landmine, Kosacki set out to design such a detector. Kosacki used his previous experience designing a device capable of detecting unexploded ordnance to help him in his challenge. He and his assistant produced prototypes, which they tested on West Sands. Only 3 months after he started, Kosacki’s design was submitted to the British Army for consideration. The design weighed only 14kg and was operated by a single person; it triumphed in the competition, beating six other British designs. The device was used extensively throughout the rest of the war and saved countless lives.

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