Howard Graham Bunker (26 April 1905 – 24 February 1994) was a major general in the United States Air Force.

[2] He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a year in 1923 to 1924 before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York,[1] on 1 July 1924,[3] with an appointment from Congressman Andrew J. Hickey of Indiana's 13th congressional district.

[4] Bunker graduated on 6 June 1928, ranked 128th in his class, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Coast Artillery Corps.

He was also involved in technical intelligence operations, and he retrieved a V-1 Flying Bomb for study from a mushroom cave in the Oise region of France.

[2] On returning to the United States, Bunker became the Chief of the Aircraft Projects Branch in the Materiel Division of the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Maintenance and Supply (A-4) at United States Army Air Forces headquarters in Washington, D.C., on 16 March 1945.

[2] In 1947, General Carl Spaatz sent Bunker to Kirtland Field, New Mexico, as commander of 428th Army Air Forces Base Unit, with the task of learning about nuclear weapons.

[2] Bunker died in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived with his wife Hazel, on 24 February 1994, and was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

[2] Awards Bunker received include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, and the French Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 with palm.