The Army at last broke secrecy on its most hush-hush subjectits search for new weapons and devices. For the first time in this war, it permitted the National Inventors Council to make public a list of some things the Army needs, invited amateur inventors to put their ingenuity to work on these specific problems.*
One revealing request was for a detector to locate "nonmetallic land mines." This would indicate that the Axis has developed mines, probably made of plastic, that escape detection by magnetic locators.
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