2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, FUDS: Orlando Range and Chemical Yard (FL)
 
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
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