In this excerpt from his 1970 Oral History Interview with CDR Etta-Belle Kitchen,USN (Ret.), then-Admiral Thach recounts his first first assembly with future Medal of Honor recipient and fighter ace Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare in 1940. The complete oral history is a delightfully told memoir from the man who was probably the Navy’s foremost fighter plane tactician of World War II. He is best known as the inventor of the “Thach Weave, and ” whereby U.S. fighters could successfully combat Japanese Zeros. Thach tells of devising the maneuver at domestic with kitchen matches. In a series of enjoyable tales,Thach describes his Naval Academy... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org