Briefly, DMAFB's history in Tucson:

• 1919: Tucson opens the first municipally owned airport in the United States. [fn 1]
• 1925: Tucson airport starts being used by the military.
• "In 1927, Charles Lindbergh, fresh from his non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, flew his "Spirit of St. Louis" to Tucson to dedicate Davis-Monthan Field -- then the largest municipal airport in the United States." [fn 2]
• 1928: Commercial air service begins in Tucson. [fn 1]
• Just prior to WWII, Davis- Monthan Field was expanded. [fn 2]
• 1941: A four- engine bomber crashes into a house on Elida Street near North Country Club Road and East Pima Street. [fn 5]
• 1944: A B-24 takes the roof off a house on South Alvernon Way near East 36th Street. Two crew members are killed. [fn 5]
• "With the end of the war, operations at the base came to a virtual standstill." [fn 2]
• Due to Tucson's ideal climate and soil conditions, the "boneyard" is established at DM after WWII for the storage of decommissioned aircraft. Today, "Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) is responsible for more than 5000 aircraft stored at DM." [fn 2]
• 1946: Strategic Air Command (SAC) operations start at DMAFB and end in 1953. [fn 2]
• The post-WWII housing boom engulfs the central and east areas of Tucson, and the population of Tucson skyrockets. From a general population of 60,000 in 1940 [fn 3], by 1946 "the population of Tucson, the City, was estimated to be about 40,000 people. The eastern city boundary was at Country Club Road. The surrounding metropolitan area, mostly north and east of the city, was estimated to be about 107,000 people." [fn 6] "By 1950 Tucson's population ha[d] reached 120,000 and by 1960 it nearly doubled to 220,000." [fn 4]
• 1953: Julia Keen Elementary School is built near South Palo Verde Blvd and East 33d Street, which will turn out to be directly in the DMAFB flight path.
• 1953: Jets arrive at DMAFB [fn 2]; runway is lengthened to accommodate them.
• 1956: An F-86 crashes near South Country Club Road and East 36th Street, narrowly missing an elementary school. Pilot is killed. [fn 5]
• 1959: A piece of debris from a passing jet falls and kills a bicyclist near South Alvernon Way and East 29th Street. [fn 5]
• 1959: A wing tank from a B-47 falls onto a house and explodes near South Alvernon Way and East 36th Street, killing one person. [fn 5]
• 1964: Combat training returns to DMAFB using the F-4 Phantom. [fn 2]
• DEC-1967: An F-4D Phantom crashes into a supermarket at South Alvernon Way and East 29th Street. Three women in the store are killed, and a teenage girl is killed in her house behind the store. Two houses on South Winstel Blvd are destroyed, a third is damaged.
• 1970: An Air National Guard F-100 crashes near Sunnyside Junior High School at South Sixth Ave and East Valencia Road, killing the pilot. [fn 5] The school has since closed.
• 1971: A-7s arrive at DMAFB. [fn 2]
• 1976: Tactical Air Command (TAC) operations start at DMAFB, A-10s arrive. [fn 2]
• OCT-1978: An A-7 crashes at North Highland Ave and East 6th Street, just missing the University of Arizona campus and Mansfeld Middle School. Two women are killed at the scene; five others are injured. [fn 5]
• ~ 1979: DMAFB agrees, in the aftermath of 1978 crash, to alter flight paths away from Central Tucson. City officials talk about possible ways to protect Midtown Tucson from increased noise and crash risks, including extension of DM's runway to the southeast onto vacant land.
• 1980s to present: Despite these concerns, suburban sprawl is allowed to metastasize onto land southeast of DMAFB with Rita Ranch, the UA Science and Technology Park, and other development.
• 1998: _Tucson Monthly_ writes: "Since the [DM] base's commission as a formal military airfield in 1941, more than fifty military aircraft have crashed in and around the City of Tucson, at least nine of them within city limits." [fn 5]
• MAR-2003 - FEB-2004: The State of Arizona, City of Tucson, and Air Force conduct a Joint Land Use Study to investigate possible encroachment by DMAFB onto the City of Tucson and vice versa. TSS has concerns about the JLUS process and with the resulting recommendations.

The 100-page JLUS document in PDF form can be had here.
Footnotes:
fn 1: from the Tucson Airport Authority website
fn 2: from the DMAFB website
fn 3: from Tucson Newspapers, Inc.'s website
fn 4: from the City of Tucson's 'Brief History of Tucson' webpage
fn 5: from "Devastating Impact", in the OCT-1998 issue of the _Tucson Monthly_
fn 6: from _A History of Saint Ambrose Parish 1946 - 1996_ by Walter A. Buckmaster. Old Pueblo Printers, Tucson, AZ.