2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 13 Dec 2006 07:15:26 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Old Arizona bombing ranges
 
Developers covet 1940s bombing ranges

Carl Holcombe
The Arizona Republic
November 26, 2006

In the 1940s, Army Air Corps bombers thundered across the skies of Arizona, dropping practice bombs on mock towns and giant bull's-eye targets on the desert floor during practice runs for the real thing in the European and Pacific theaters.

Nearly six decades later, the state's housing market has started turning the middle of nowhere into the middle of somewhere, particularly in fast-growing Pinal County, site of 14 former practice bombing spots.

And those practice bombs from long ago are creating a problem for housing today. Some of them, loaded with flash-and-burn black powder charges, may still be waiting to explode.

Former defense sites "used to be way out in rural parts of the county," said Ken Buchanan, assistant Pinal County manager. "Now, they're in the path of the development boom or are in the development."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/1126Defensesites1126.html

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