[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: New Boston Air Force Station (NH)

[Lenny Siegel]

New Hampshire Air Force installation earns land ethic award
New Boston earns land ethic award


by Scott Prater
Schriever Sentinel
January 14, 2009

NEW BOSTON AIR FORCE STATION, N.H.  -- The P51 Mustang pilot lined up 
his crosshairs just as he approached the target area. Once over the 
intended drop zone he pulled a lever, releasing his bomb onto the soft 
New Hampshire landscape.

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The ongoing project involves a parcel of New Boston AFS land, which was 
used as a bombing and strafing range for P51 fighters and Avenger 
Aircraft during World War II. The range fell into disuse until the 
Korean conflict when it was used again until 1958.

In 1960, the installation commenced its current mission. This site 
became one of eight satellite tracking stations now established in the 
United States.

The cleanup project has entered its third phase as crews on the ground 
clear hundreds of tons of metallic debris from bombs, and dispose of 
unexploded ordinance which has been estimated to be about 20 percent of 
all live bombs dropped on the landscape since 1942.

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http://www.schriever.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123131357

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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 at cpeo.org>
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