September 1939. The Second World War had just begun, and in the no man's land between the Siegfried Line and the Maginot Line, a French reconnaissance patrol came across a German minefield that had a new device. La Mina-S. The allies nicknamed her Bouncing Betty, and she inaugurated a new saga of anti-personnel devices known as “jumping mines,” which were copied halfway around the world. The Italian Valmara series, the South African J-69, the North American M2 and M16, the Czechoslovak PP-Mi-Sr, or the Soviet OZM-3, OZM-4 and OZM-72, among many others.
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