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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|World War II era minefield in Egypt}}<br />
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[[File:2 Battle of El Alamein 001.png|thumb|200px|An approximate location of the Devil's gardens.]]<br />
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The '''Devil's gardens''' was the name given by Field Marshal ({{lang|de|Generalfeldmarschall}}) [[Erwin Rommel]],<ref name="telegraph"/> commander of the German {{lang|de|[[Afrika Korps]]}} during the [[Second World War]], to the defensive entanglements of [[land mine]]s and [[Wire obstacle|barbed wire]] built to protect Axis defensive positions at El Alamein before the [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] in late 1942. The defences stretch from the Mediterranean coast to the [[Qattara Depression]]. An estimated 16 million mines,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2-akaMNdU خارج القاهرة: ربع مليون فدان آلغام بمطروح ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330015834/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2-akaMNdU# |date=2016-03-30 }} - ONTV - 13 Jan 2012 {{in lang|ar}}</ref> planted by the Europeans during the world wars and called "devil's gardens", still hinder development of most of [[Matrouh Governorate]], and are constantly being removed.<br />
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[[File:Matilda-Scorpion.jpg|thumb|A [[Matilda II|Matilda]] [[Mine flail|scorpion tank]] equipped for mine clearing.]]<br />
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During the 'break-in' phase of the British attack, the commander of the [[Eighth Army (United Kingdom)|Eighth Army]], Lieutenant General [[Bernard Montgomery]], planned for engineers supporting the infantry brigades of the [[2nd New Zealand Division]] to clear lanes through the minefields, along which attacking formations would pass into the Axis positions. Engineers using [[Polish mine detector|hand tools]] were supplemented by [[Mine flail|Scorpion tanks]] equipped with rotating flails to explode anti-tank mines. The Scorpions did not work well and manual clearing had to be employed, which would have been more difficult, had the minefields been sown with more anti-personnel mines.<ref>Schneck, William. ''Breaching the Devil's Garden: The 6th New Zealand Brigade in Operation Lightfoot. The Second Battle of El Alamein''. 2005. US Army Communications-Electronics Command</ref><br />
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An estimated 3 million mines were laid before the battle, most of which remain and are becoming more unstable and dangerous.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/1410657/Sixty-years-on-and-the-El-Alamein-armaments-still-maim.html |title=Sixty years on and the El Alamein armaments still maim |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 October 2002 |accessdate=29 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731030422/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/1410657/Sixty-years-on-and-the-El-Alamein-armaments-still-maim.html |archive-date=31 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8576292.stm |title=Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein |work=BBC News |date=20 March 2022}}</ref><br />
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