John Thach
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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 o
Official Navy portrait of Admiral John S. Thach
LCDR John S. Thach wearing M-450 helmet, AN6530 goggles and inflatable life vest, 1942
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
USS Thach
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USS Thach, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Admiral John Thach, a Naval Aviator during World War II, who invented the Thach Weave dogfighting
John Thach
…15, 1981, in Coronado, California, four days before his 76th birthday, and was buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. The frigate Thach (FFG-43) was named in his honor. Thach and his wife Madalynn had four children…
USS Thach in the Persian Gulf, 2003
In the New Jersey battle group, the ships accompanying this battle ship are clockwise from left, are USS Long Beach, USS Merrill, HMAS Swan, HMAS Stuart, HMAS Parramatta, USNS Passumpsic, USS Wabash, HMAS Derwent, USS Kirk, USS Thach, and HMAS Hobart, 1 July 1986