Pyote Air Force Base was a World War II United States Army Air Forces training airbase. It was on 2,745 acres (1,111 ha) a mile from the town of Pyote, Texas, on U.S. Highway 80, 20 miles west of Monahans,` 230 miles (370 km) east of El Paso.
2006 USGS airphoto
Flightline of Pyote AAF about 1944/45. Notice the mix of B-17 and B-29 aircraft. The walls of the large hangar in the lower left of the photo are the only standing structure left at Pyote today. This photo is not Pyote. It is Walker, Kansas.
Tribute to the first squadrons who trained at Rattlesnake Bomber Base
Texas Historical Marker
Pyote is a town in Ward County, Texas, United States. Its population was 72 at the 2020 census.
Pyote, Texas