[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Orlando Range and Chemical Yard (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Another WWII bombing range

By GARY ROBERTS
East Orlando Sun (FL)
July 23, 2008

Having just moved into their home on Navajo Way in 1956, Louise 
Weatherholt's small children often spent the afternoons exploring their 
new neighborhood, which in those days consisted mainly of cow pastures 
and marshes. The kids ventured out to Danube Road, which was just a dirt 
road, and played on mounds of more dirt in the open fields near what is 
Yucatan Drive, south of Lake Underhill Road.

Sometimes, she said, they would bring back some mementos of their 
adventures - bullets and live shells. One shell, she remembers, was six 
inches long. "The kids many times brought over to the house shells they 
had found," she said. "All the kids played down there. They used to call 
it Bullet Hill. Thank goodness my husband knew what it was and disposed 
of it."

What her children had discovered were the remnants left over from the 
Orlando Range and Chemical Yard, 2,100 acres of land that were leased by 
the U.S. government from 1943-46 for military training and testing.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.eosun.com/article-513-another-wwii-bombing-range.html

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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
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