"Of course finding the mines is the tough part especially when you're in the jungle or you're trying to patrol down a road or you're in support of armoured vehicles. One of the problems we've got is that the enemy will come along at night time, put in a minefield, sometimes it's a 500 pound bomb and camouflage it so that when a vehicle drives over it of course it fires. Now one of the things that we would do would be to put two sappers out the front and they would have a mine detector and this mine detector really is a misnomer. The mine detector actually finds metal. It's like a resonance machine that sends a ping down into the ground and it comes back to the sapper's earphones and if it detects metal it gives this ping into the sapper's ears and then if he gets that ping he takes his bayonet out or his prodder and digs it down into the ground very gingerly so he doesn't set the mine off that he's trying to find and then comes up with the mine."

LIEUTENANT GEORGE HULSE