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Lowry Air Force Base (Lowry Field from 1938–1948) is a former United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) training base during World War II and a United States Air Force (USAF) training base during the Cold War. From 1955-1958, it served as the initial site of the U.S. Air Force Academy. It is a U.S. Formerly Used Defense Site (B08CO0505). [4]
The Denver Bomb Plot was the call sign of an early Cold War automatic tracking radar station established for training and evaluation by August 25, 1949. [6] The station was operated by Detachment A of the 3903rd Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron, was commanded by Capt John A. Schlupp in 1949, [6] and conducted Radar Bomb Scoring of simulated bomb drops on mock Denver area targets by Strategic Air ...
From 1937 to 1994 Lowry Air Force Base, located on the eastern edge of Denver, was primarily a technical training center.It graduated more than 1.1 million enlisted members and officers in skills ranging from armament to photography, aiding the country's war efforts in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
When Lowry Air Force base closed in 1994, the surrounding area not only lost a major employer (that supplied some 7,000 people with jobs), but it also took a big chunk out of the area's population ...
The Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) plans to close 20 military bases across the country by Sept. 15, 2011. Once a military facility closes, the ripple effect ...
Sewart Air Force Base: Smyrna: Tennessee: 1970 Closed Shemya Air Force Base: Shemya Island: Alaska: 1994 Redesignated as Eareckson Air Station: Sherman Air Force Base: Leavenworth: Kansas: 1953 Realigned to the US Army as Sherman Army Airfield: Slocum Air Force Base: Davids Island: New York: 1950 Realigned to the US Army as Fort Slocum: Smoky ...
The Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) plans to close 20 military bases across the country by Sept. 15, 2011. Once a military facility closes, the ripple effect ...
Inactivated in 1966; Biggs AFB closed and transferred to US Army as Biggs AAF. 96th Bombardment Wing, (Heavy) Dyess AFB, Texas; B-52E, 1963–1970; B-52D, 1969–1982; B-52H, 1982–1985 337th Bombardment Squadron Inactivated in 1993; Dyess AFB became B-1B base Jun 1985. 97th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Eaker AFB, Arkansas; B-52G, 1960–1992