# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-thach
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:17:43.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-thach"
name: "John Thach"
slug: "john-thach"
description: "John Smith Thach was a World War II Naval Aviator, air combat tactician, and United States Navy admiral. Thach developed the Thach Weave, a combat flight formation which could counter enemy fighters of superior performance, and later the big blue blanket, an aerial defense against kamikaze attacks."
tagline: "United States admiral (1905–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Thach.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1905-04-19"
deathDate: "1981-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.73
  momentum:             0.791970802919708
  historical:           9.039785333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E8%96%A9%E5%A5%87"
    title: "約翰·薩奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thach"
    title: "John Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "جون ثاتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Thach"
    title: "John S. Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thach"
    title: "John Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thach"
    title: "John Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thach"
    title: "John Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%83%81"
    title: "ジョン・サッチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thach"
    title: "John Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thach"
    title: "John Thach"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q425718"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump