[CPEO-MEF] FUDS, MUNITIONS: Canaveral seashore (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Canaveral seashore spot listed in cleanup effort

By DINAH VOYLES PULVER
Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL)
March 22, 2010


A chunk of concrete sitting on an isolated, windswept spot at Canaveral 
National Seashore once attracted a constant stream of aircraft strafing 
the sand.

In 1943, the U.S. Navy filled an old airplane fuselage with concrete and 
placed it on the spot to serve as a target for pilots practicing for war 
on distant battlefields. Soon, planes arrived regularly from naval air 
stations at Daytona Beach and Sanford.

Earl Wallace, a longtime New Smyrna Beach resident, said he seems to 
remember aircraft from naval bases along Florida's east coast using the 
targets along Mosquito Lagoon. At the time, Wallace was stationed in 
West Palm Beach with the Coast Guard.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/southeast-volusia/2010/03/22/canaveral-seashore-spot-listed-in-cleanup-effort.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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