Army Corps of Engineers Searching for Old Weapons

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is getting ready to look for leftover weapons in Middle Georgia.
In the 1940's close to 20-thousand soldiers trained at Camp Wheeler Army base in Macon. Much of that training included learning to use things like; rifles, grenades, and mines.
When soldiers left in 1946 the land was given back for public use. Fifty-one year old Linda Harris has lived in the area all her life and remembers playing on the property as a child.

"There were shells, like we would play in the dirt. We would dig up shells and metal fragments. Even my dad saved a cannonball, but we don't know where it is right now. It may still be on the property."

Experts will spend four months going over the land with metal detectors. If ordnance's are found, they'll mark the area and come back later to remove them. Two years ago officials removed more than 300 unexploded devices on the former grounds of Camp Wheeler.