Thach Weave

"This biography completes a trilogy on the three Navy fighter pilots - Jimmie Thach, Butch O'Hare, and Jimmy Flatley - who developed sweeping changes in aerial combat tactics during World War II. Thach was the theoretical innovator of a tactic that became known as the Thach Weave, while O'Hare and Flatley joined him in making it a success." "This book offers an account of how Thach devised the plan to give his squadron of F4F Wildcats a fighting chance against Japan's formidable Zeros. Using matchsticks on his kitchen table, he determined that the Wildcats, working in pairs, should weave back…