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|image = 300px |caption = Lowry Air Force Base and nearby residential areas in March 1987 |type = |code = GNIS: 2089348〔 (The GNIS has a 2nd set of coordinates at McMullin Park, and it also lists the Lowry Elementary School--2695987 at 394246N 1045347W.)〕 FFID: CO857002413000 USAF: 08007F |built = 1937-1941 |builder= |materials= |height= |used = 12 Dec 1938 – 30 Sep 1994 |demolished = numerous buildings |condition = Denver neighborhood |ownership = City & County of Denver |controlledby=United States Air Force |garrison =Lowry Technical Training Center |commanders= |occupants= |battles= |events= }} Lowry Air Force Base (Lowry Field 1938-1948) is Formerly Used Defense Site B08CO0505〔 (General Accountin Office )〕 that was a 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, serving as the initial 1955-8 site of the U.S. Air Force Academy. ==Background== The City of Denver, Aurora, and Highland was chartered as the 1859 territorial capital after the start of the 1858 Pikes Peak Gold Rush; and the 1887 Fort Logan was established in the modern Denver Metropolitan Area. East of the state capital, military training at Montclair, Colorado, began at the future airfield when the 1887 Jarvis Hall Military School opened. Montclair was incorporated into Denver in 1903 and Jarvis Hall burned down in 1904. At the military school site the Agnes Phipps Memorial Sanatorium was established as a tuberculosis hospital in 1904 at 520 Rampart Way〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lowry Air Force Base」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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