Servicemen Stationed at the Rattlesnake Bomber Base

Photos from Pyote Museum

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B-17 Pyote AAF 1944
M/Sgt. F. F. Waggoner
M/Sgt. R. L. Neatherly
M/Sgt. Bob Hawkins
M/Sgt. Lowes
Warrent Officer Kovaght
M/Sgt. Moss
(Kneeling) is S/Sgt. Roberts

Staff Sgt. Charles Dean McGinley
Monahans, Texas
Killed in Action 4-24-1944

Some men stationed at the Bomber Base

1st. Lieutenant Ray E. Christ, Dental Officer

Sergeant Harold W. Jordan, Aerial Gunner

Staff Sergeant Frank Boyd, Aerial Gunner

Airplane Commander
Captain W. C. Gaddis, Pilot

Sgt. J. L. Harlan, U.S. Army Signal Corps
Pyote Army Air Base 1945

Master Sergeant G. H. Brandes
30th Bombardment Squadron
19th Bombardment Group
Pyote Army Air Base 1944

2nd. Lt. Paul H. McConnell - - Navigator
1st. Lt. Olof M. Ballinger - - Pilot
2nd Lt. George C. Williams - - Bombardier
2nd Lt. John M. Carah - - Pilot

(all four officers were with the 533rd. Bomb Squadron of the 381st Bomb Group.  The 381st
was the first B-17 group trained at Pyote.  They arrived at Pyote in March 1943 and left for Pueblo, Colorado in May 1943.  The Bomb Group deployed to England in late May,1943.)

December 17, 2003
Up dated Sept. 26, 2007