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To: OKSooner
Never heard of this “Thatch Weave” thing. Care to help us out, briefly? TIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thach_Weave

Developed by LCDR John S. "Jimmy" Thatch, USN and employed by his squadron VF-3 during the Battle of Midway.

Six Grumman F4F Wildcats were attacked by 15 to 20 Japanese Zeros. VF-3 shot down four Zeros and lost one Wildcat.

It was the first loss in an air-to-air engagement for the Japanese.

93 posted on 06/03/2019 12:53:38 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net; OKSooner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vJzlcAHEI

Thatch weave illustrated


94 posted on 06/03/2019 1:01:41 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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