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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Henry Malone

Dr. H. O. Malone learned to fly during high school in an Aeronca 7AC Champ and, as a freshman at Baylor University in 1952, was in the Civil Air Patrol. In 1954, he became a USAF aviation cadet in Class 55-N and after Preflight School at Lackland AFB, Texas flew the Piper PA-18 Super Cub and North American T-6G Texan in Primary Pilot Training at Spence AFB, GA, followed by the T-28A Trojan and Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star in Basic Pilot Training at Bryan AFB, Texas. After winning his Air Force pilot wings at age 20, he completed the T-33 fighter gunnery course at Laughlan AFB, Texas. He flew F-86 Sabres at Nellis AFB, where he learned air combat tactics from "Hank" Buttleman, youngest jet ace of the Korean War. He was assigned to USAFE's 50th Fighter Bomber Wing at Hahn Air Base, Germany in the 81st Fighter Bomber Squadron commanded by Korean ace Robbie Risner. He left active duty in 1958 and completed undergraduate and graduate school interspersed by a two year tour in the Army as an operations staff officer before joining the History Faculty at Texas Christian University. In 1973 he became a civilian historian in the Department of Defense, serving in the HQ US Air Force in Washington, DC, and HQ US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). He retired in 1994. He flies a homebuilt experimental H-2A Honey Bee aerobatic biplane name Marvelous Monika based at the Middle Peninsula Regional Airport near West Point, Va. He and his wife, Monika, have four children and nine grandchildren.