UXO Site selected: Camp Claiborne, LA

General Area: , LA

Site Type/Program: RCWM sites (Non-stockpile)

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Brief History: Camp Claibome was a chemical warfare training area in World War II. A memorandum found in the National Archives refers to 7,992 smoke bottles remaining at the camp, and outlines a request to ship the bottles to five other military posts, Further in the memorandum, it requests that the remaining balance of 1,992 bottles of HS be retained in storage at the camp. HS is mustard gas. Since this correspondence was between Engineer Corps Officers, it is felt that the reference to HS was a misprint and the smoke bottles probably contained HC. If the smoke bottles truly contained mustard gas, then it should have been Chemical Warfare Officers deciding on the disposition of the bottles.

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Activities Completed: An Inventory Project Report was completed in July of 1993. This report established that the current owner is the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that there was a potential for Ordnance and Explosive Waste (OEW), that the potential for chemical warfare materiel was unknown, and that the 'impact area' be further investigated for OEW.

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