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Gen. Hamilton H. Howze, who began his military career in the horse cavalry, served in tanks during World War II and then helped change how the Army fights by developing helicopter-warfare tactics used in the Vietnam War and beyond, died on Dec. 8 in Fort Worth. He was 89. General Howze would not have surprised anyone if he had been devoted to the old Army ways. His great-grandfather, Hamilton Smith Hawkins, was an Army doctor who died in the Mexican War. His father, Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Howze, won the Medal of Honor fighting the Sioux and presided over the 1925 court-martial that found Gen. Billy Mitchell, the crusader for air power, guilty of insubordination. But the son was hardly shackled by tradition. In 1962, General Howze presided over a military panel, the Howze Board, that issued a landmark report. It proposed that aircraft, mainly helicopters, carry soldiers into battle, resupply them, rain firepower upon the enemy and remove the wounded.

Gen. Hamilton Hawkins Howze, whose military career began with the horse cavalry and ended in the Vietnam era of helicopter warfare--which he pioneered--died Dec. 8 in Fort Worth. He was 89. Considered the father of air cavalry, Howze led a military panel, the Howze Board, that issued a landmark 1962 report on expanding the use of helicopters in the Army.

A book review of A Cavalryman's Story: Memoirs of a Twentieth-Century Army General by Hamilton H. Howze is presented.

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U.S. Army established U.S. Army. Atlantic Forces under the command of Herbert B. Powell on 16 October 1962 in preparation for the Cuban Crisis; U.S. Army established logistical base at Opa Locka Air Force Base (Florida) and instituted Combat readiness for units delegated to participate in possible U.S. military intervention in Cuba

Earle G. Wheeler believes that John F. Kennedy recognized the value of the U.S. Armed Forces after the Cuban Crisis; John F. Kennedy requests that the U.S. Armed Forces Mobilization for U.S. military intervention in Cuba be extensive enough to minimize U.S. Casualties in order to avert Political opposition; [Earle G. Wheeler; Hamilton H. Howze] discuss a possible U.S. military intervention in Cuba with John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Crisis; Earle G. Wheeler suggests that the Military build-up which accompanied the Berlin Crisis made United States policy during the Cuban Crisis possible

U.S. Army describes movement and marshalling of forces during the Cuban Crisis for staging from U.S. Army. Second Logistical Command bases in Florida; [Hospitals; Medical supplies] were moved to southeastern [United States; Florida] for expected Casualties during the U.S. military intervention in Cuba; Intelligence on Cuba declined after January 1961; U.S. Army Contingency plans for military actions against Cuba called for Overthrow of Fidel Castro to establish Friendly governments; U.S. Army Reserve units were called to Active duty during Cuban Crisis; U.S. Army describes its roles and activities during the Cuban Crisis; Special forces Military bases were planned by U.S. Army in preparation for Counterinsurgency Warfare in Cuba as part of Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command plans