Hamilton Howze was assigned to Army aviation. His mission was to develop doctrine and the way forward when it came to employing Army aircraft and how they would support warfighters on the ground.

Gen. Hamilton Hawkins Howze, whose vision of a “sky cavalry” transformed the Army’s use of helicopters before the Vietnam War, died Tuesday in Ft. Worth. He was 89. “The way the Army ...

Before the split, though, Army Gen. Hamilton Howze was tasked with defining how resources would be used to help support ground troops. The first two helicopters the Army Air Corps employed were ...

In 1962, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara tasked Lt. Gen. Hamilton Howze with incorporating helicopters into the American army. The Howze board pioneered the idea of air mobility — inserting ...

Doesn’t exactly strike dread into the heart of the enemy, does it? Instead, Army General Hamilton Howze wanted something that showed strength and stealth and reflected a warrior ethos.

Army General Hamilton Howze reportedly wasn’t thrilled with Hoverfly and Dragonfly — the names of the first two Army helicopters — and ordered some changes. “He wanted to name them after ...

Hamilton Howze in 1957 to command the Army Aviation School and Fort Rucker, and also to apply cavalry doctrine to Army Aviation, according to the chaplain. "The backstory was that he would've been ...

The Cold War coincided almost perfectly with the rise of the jet age. In the denouement of World War II, American and Soviet ...