John Thacker has gone west!
Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:57 pm
A forgotten pilot of Pearl Harbor has died, John Thacker. 
He took off in a P-36 and with 3 fellow P-36 pilots engaged A6M Zeros.
God speed sir!
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 5307.story
He took off in a P-36 and with 3 fellow P-36 pilots engaged A6M Zeros.
God speed sir!
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/ ... 5307.story
Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:07 pm
I thought that name looked familiar, I came across it gathering data to do a P-36 scramble, Dec 7th.
Salute!
Salute!
Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:35 pm
Wasn't there another Thacker flying one of the B-17s? (George? Ed?) After serving a tour in the PTO, he went to the ETO as a squadron commander in the 384th BG.
Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:24 am
TriangleP wrote:SaxMan wrote:Wasn't there another Thacker flying one of the B-17s? (George? Ed?) After serving a tour in the PTO, he went to the ETO as a squadron commander in the 384th BG.
...There are 2 Thackers listed on 384th BG website.
One of those being the same Col. Robert E. Thacker that flew the P-82 "Betty Jo" non-stop from Hawaii to NYC in 1947.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Thacker