Costco to Host Book Signing for Lowry Air Force Base Authors

AURORA, Colo. - Nov. 22, 2013 - PRLog -- Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Authors

Jack Stokes Ballard, John Bond, and George Paxton will be available to sign copies of pictorial history

From 1937 to 1994, Lowry Air Force Base, located on the eastern edge of the city of Denver, served the nation and the surrounding community in many distinguished ways. The air base, primarily a technical training center, graduated more than 1.1 million enlisted members and officers in skills ranging from armament to photography. The base tremendously strengthened the country’s war efforts in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.

From the 1980s, Lowry Air Force Base remained one of Colorado’s largest employers, with approximately 10,000 military and civilian men and women, providing an economic impact approaching $1 billion annually. Thus Lowry significantly contributed to maintaining the world’s largest air force and to promoting the accelerated growth of the Denver metro area and Colorado.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

1471 South Havana St., Aurora CO 80012

When: Friday, December 6^th, 2013; 11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online. (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738596648/Lowry-Air-...)

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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Author Jack Stokes Ballard holds a doctorate of philosophy in American history from UCLA , taught history at the Air Force Academy, served a career in the Air Force, and, as a lieutenant colonel, was chief of the Plans and Requirements Division at Lowry (1974-1980). John Bond, a retired Air Force master sergeant, was a student at Lowry and served at the base, and when assigned to the Air Force Academy, he greeted the first cadets at the Lowry interim site. He worked for IBM (1965-1988) and as a volunteer historian and photograph archivist at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum. George Paxton holds a bachelor of arts degree from Columbia, a doctor of medicine degree from Boston University, and a master of science degree from the University of Colorado. He is a retired Denver physician, served as a Public Health Service medical officer, and was in the Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of captain.

Lowry Air Force Base

by Jack Stokes Ballard, John Bond, George Paxton

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: April 1, 2013