DURING the Second World War the mine detector played a crucial role in clearing the way for advancing troops and armour.
Now one of those veteran detectors is helping tell the entire story of bomb disposal work at a museum dedicated to the wartime years.
The award-winning Eden Camp museum, created in an old prisoner of war camp near Malton, has been the home of the RAF Bomb Disposal Association's memorial since last year.
The association has now presented the museum with a mine detector which was once used by sappers during campaigns in North Africa and Europe.
It has now been made part of a bomb disposal exhibition at the museum, which is believed to be one of the biggest of its kind in the world.
Archivist Nick Hill said: "Mine detectors played an important role in almost every theatre of war and they are a fitting part of the bomb disposal story."
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