John Thach
✓ Source-basedfallingUnited States admiral (1905-1981)
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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.
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LCDR John S. Thach wearing M-450 helmet, AN6530 goggles and inflatable life vest, 1942
LCDR Thach with 7 kill markings (one out of frame) on his F4F (still from The Battle of Midway by John Ford)
Thach (right) teaches new pilots.
Captain John S. Thach (right) as commanding officer of the escort aircraft carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118) during the Korean War, discussing a mission with two United States Marine Corps pilots, Major Robert P. Keller (center) and First lieutenant Roland B. Heilman (left), from his ship while aboard Sicily off the Korean Peninsula
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Lived 1905 to 1981 · aged 75
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