[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: Mortar round recovered at Yokota Air Force Base, Japan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[According to the text of this article, this may have been a  
discarded military munition, not unexploded ordnance. - LS]

Yokota traffic stalled while UXO excavated, detonated

By Seth Robson
Stars and Stripes
October 21, 2013

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - Traffic on Yokota Air Base was blocked for  
several hours Monday after construction workers dug up an unexploded  
bomb.

Roads linking on-base schools and housing on the east side of the air  
base to the Yokota Community Center were blocked while explosive  
ordnance disposal technicians from Yokosuka Naval Station removed a  
foot-long mortar shell from a worksite.

...

Yokota was a Japanese military facility during WWII. But 374th  
Airlift Wing spokesman Capt. Ray Geoffroy said it was not bombed by  
the U.S. and that most of the old ordnance found there was likely  
abandoned.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/yokota-traffic-stalled-while-uxo- 
excavated-detonated-1.248235

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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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