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Rattlesnake Bomber Base: Pyote Army Airfield in World War II.(Book review)

Rattlesnake Bomber Base: Pyote Army Airfield in World War H. By Thomas E. Alexander. Abilene, Tex.: State House Press, 2005. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 216. $18.95 paperback ISBN: 1-880510-90-1

Thomas Alexander's book describes one of the many bases the Army Air Forces opened to train pilots for the Second World War, only to close in the immediate years following the Japanese surrender. In 1942, surviving members of the 19th Bombardment Group, veterans of fighting in the Philippines and southwest Pacific, arrived at Pyote Army Airfield to conduct B-17 (and later B-29) combat crew training. Construction workers carved the base out of the caliche soil ...

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