Originally Posted by
oldpax
As an aside to the Falklands demining it is still going on around the El Alamein battlefield.
I had a good friend (now flying circuits in the clouds) who carried out a survey for HMG of part of the Alamein battlefield with a view to clearing it of mines. Apparently the Germans and Italians had tried to clear part of the battlefield but lost too many guys so gave up. My pals recommendation was leave it to decay for another fifty or so years before doing anything. Apparently the main problem was that each side had laid mines and in some cases there were mines laid on top of mines which in turn were sitting on other mines many of which were booby-trapped.