• The Howze Board was the informal name given to the Tactical Mobility Requirements Board created at the direct request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara...
    17 KB (2,311 words) - 15:25, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Army Aviation Branch
    analysis, the Howze Board recommended that the Army commit itself to organic air mobility – later known as air assault. The Howze Board recommended the...
    28 KB (2,963 words) - 19:16, 10 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Close air support
    the US Army began to identify a dedicated CAS need for itself. The Howze Board, which studied the question, published a landmark report describing the...
    63 KB (7,904 words) - 07:31, 17 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Air assault
    the Tactical Mobility Requirements Board (normally referred to as the Howze Board) of the U.S. Army in 1962. The Board met at a difficult time; the bulk...
    38 KB (4,657 words) - 16:18, 30 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne
    Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara convened the Howze Board to review Army aviation requirements. The board recommended an airmobile division supported by...
    36 KB (4,587 words) - 20:16, 20 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for 11th Airborne Division
    selected Lt. Gen. Hamilton H. Howze, the Army's first director of aviation, to implement the study. McNamara handpicked the board members and prevented Secretary...
    83 KB (8,515 words) - 23:19, 17 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hamilton Howze
    Hamilton Hawkins Howze (21 December 1908 – 8 December 1998) was a general in the United States Army. He was a developer and advocate of helicopter-borne...
    13 KB (995 words) - 17:37, 9 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for 1st Cavalry Division (United States)
    returned to Korea in 1957, where it remained until 1965. As a result of the Howze Board, helicopters were used in Vietnam for reconnaissance, command and control...
    107 KB (10,306 words) - 01:34, 18 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for James M. Gavin
    perform reconnaissance, raids, and screening operations. This led to the Howze Board, which had a great influence on the Army's use of helicopters, first...
    57 KB (6,740 words) - 09:24, 5 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for III Armored Corps
    1974, the Army decided to implement one of the recommendations of the Howze Board and created an air cavalry combat brigade. The assets of the 2d Brigade...
    48 KB (5,187 words) - 14:01, 24 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for 6th Cavalry Regiment
    1974, the Army decided to implement one of the recommendations of the Howze Board and created an air cavalry combat brigade. The assets of the 2nd Brigade...
    87 KB (11,748 words) - 22:06, 27 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Eugene Luther Vidal
    Advisory Panel of the Secretary of the Army and was a member of the Howze Board in 1962, which developed the air assault concept for the Army. In 1967...
    42 KB (5,401 words) - 16:47, 7 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for 9th Infantry Regiment (United States)
    reorganized and trained in the air assault concept identified by the Howze Board with the 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry reassigned to it. The division was...
    57 KB (7,285 words) - 18:04, 19 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ben Harrell
    States Army and the 101st Airborne Division, and as a member of the Howze Board. Ben Harrell was born on March 15, 1911, in Medford, Oregon. He was appointed...
    12 KB (1,124 words) - 09:32, 11 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Project Flat Top
    Hamilton H. Howze, the Army's first director of aviation, to conduct a review of the tactical possibilities suggested by the study. The Howze Board report...
    51 KB (6,162 words) - 11:57, 25 June 2025
  • Caribou aircraft (de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou). The Army's 1962 Howze Board strongly endorsed the airmobility concept, calling for the creation of...
    9 KB (1,241 words) - 08:55, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for John Norton (general)
    and doctrinal matters, and served on the Hoelscher Committee and the Howze Board. Under Norton's recommendation, the first Air Assault Division was created...
    21 KB (1,536 words) - 10:20, 9 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Harry Kinnard
    the Aviation Test Section at Fort Bragg. In 1963, in response to the Howze Board directive to test all aspects of airmobility as a unit of the Regular...
    18 KB (1,554 words) - 05:36, 16 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Robert M. Shoemaker
    In 1962, he served on the Tactical Mobility Requirements Board, also known as the Howze Board, which developed many of the principles used in air assault...
    11 KB (629 words) - 05:51, 10 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bogardus Snowden Cairns
    War II commander, Gen. Hamilton Howze—who chaired the Howze Board, also known as the Tactical Mobility Requirements Board, commissioned by then Secretary...
    14 KB (1,816 words) - 06:13, 14 April 2025
  • 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), and another CFT followed up on the Howze Board to improve helicopter integration in the army and produced the AH-1G...
    26 KB (3,637 words) - 22:38, 19 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Joint Attack Helicopter Instrumented Evaluation
    yet-another logistics vehicle. These comments led to the formation of the Howze Board, which enthusiastically supported the use of helicopters in combat. The...
    22 KB (3,049 words) - 00:16, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Billingslea
    return to the United States in May 1962, Billingslea was attached to the Howze Board at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which was tasked with the review and test...
    26 KB (2,524 words) - 15:32, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Delk M. Oden
    from October 1961 to May 1963, and during this time he served on the Howze Board. In May 1963 he was assigned to South Vietnam as Chief of the Army section...
    10 KB (1,017 words) - 14:02, 24 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alva R. Fitch
    General Gordon B. Rogers; and its results prefigured the more influential Howze Board on airmobility. Fitch retired from active duty in 1966 and was military...
    13 KB (1,165 words) - 00:49, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS General R. L. Howze
    USS General R. L. Howze (AP-134) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. The ship was crewed by the U.S. Coast...
    10 KB (997 words) - 02:48, 14 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Robert J. Wood
    General Gordon B. Rogers; and its results prefigured the more influential Howze Board on airmobility. In 1960, he was promoted to lieutenant general and assigned...
    12 KB (1,088 words) - 07:13, 14 April 2025
  • mutual attraction between Ricky (Michael Ealy) and her. Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze) is still interested in Terri, but is distraught when he finds out that...
    13 KB (1,267 words) - 23:30, 24 May 2025
  • Assistant Division Commander, 1st Cavalry Division. As a member of the Howze Board, Starker helped develop the concept of the Air Cavalry Combat Brigade...
    5 KB (247 words) - 23:54, 2 January 2024
  • of North Bradley, chairman of the BBC (d. 2006) August 30 Joseph Lawson Howze, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019) Giacomo Rondinella, Italian singer...
    101 KB (10,831 words) - 13:54, 21 July 2025