The Polish lieutenant Józef Kosacki invented the first mine (metal) detector. He gave it as a gift to the British Army. It was used by the British 8th Army in El Alamein, countering German mine defenses there after. I think he was rewarded with a thank you letter from the king?

9/10 times the comments are more interesting than the original articles.

P.S. You gotta love the Polish. Especially the women.

you reckon so? well.. should I say 'a regular student of British History', and that could be a Brit then, or a Wop, or even a Pole, or anybody who's done it this way, the Queen's way. Not their fault, neither ours, just the way it is. Nobody bothers neither did the author, that's no racist, just a simple fact.

beg everybody's whom I might offend pardon.
cheers

ps. nobody reads these very bottom comments anyway, I wonder if INQ did intentionally place these even below 'related artc', low, low, low.

Tad rascist, don't you think?

You should have written up here, of these historical events and these Poles.
You cannot expect regular Brit to tell publicly about the History more, than he was actually told and taught himself by the British public. They don't bother and cannot be asked.
regards

Enigma was broken by polish mathematicians. It's strange there is no word about them in this article!

As usualy no word about the Polish mathematicians: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, who had broken Enigma in 1932: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine.