2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:24:53 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS - Former ranges in southern Colorado
 
Army Corps wants to re-examine old bombing ranges


By PETER ROPER
The Pueblo Chieftain (CO)
February 23, 2008


It's been 65 years since the B-24s from Pueblo Army Air Base droned over 
the prairie west of La Junta, blowing craters in the cactus and 
sagebrush as they practiced for real bombing missions over Europe and 
the Pacific.

Well, the Army hasn't forgotten those days.

On Monday, the Army Corps of Engineers will host a public meeting at 
Otero Junior College to discuss three old Army Air Force ranges that 
were located west and southwest of La Junta during World War II. 
Landowners and people who know what happened on the gunnery and bombing 
ranges are invited to attend the 7 p.m. meeting in the banquet room at 
the Student Center.



...

For the entire article, see
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1203778874/2

-- 


Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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