U. S. Navy Quotes
Thatch Weave
This was an official Navy Air Fighiting Tactic named for the flier who invented it, John S. Thach. In WWII the Japanese Zero fighter plane was much superior to the Navy Wildcat, in speed, maneuvrability, and other factors. The Thatch Weave was created to offset that Japanese advantage. It was so effective that despite the superiority ot the Zeros, the ratio of Zero losses to Wildcat losses in arial combat was an incredible 9 to 1. It enabled the U. S. to handle the Japanese fighters until there was a new generation of American fighters came on line.
U. S. Navy, Name given to the very successful air combat tactic that overcame the design inferiority of the of the U. S. Wildcat compared to te Japanese Zero first used at the Batle of Midway, June 1942
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