Question: Albert O. Vorse Jr. served in early fighter squadrons with legendary figures like Butch O'Hare and this World War II naval aviator that developed what combat flight formation 

Context articles: Rowan's Battle of Britain
No. 79 Squadron RAAF
Edward Ellington
Thomas B. Hayward
John T. Hayward
Service Squadron
Albert O. Vorse Jr.
John Henry Towers
Edward O'Hare
John Thach

Rowan's Battle of Britain is a World War II era Combat flight simulation video game set during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
 The combat flight simulation has both RAF and opposing Luftwaffe forces featuring over 800 sqmi of sky and hundreds of aircraft.
 It has been remade twice, first in 2005 as "" by Shockwave Productions,Inc., and again in 2007 as "" by Wild Hare Entertainment, a modified version of the above game with a more arcade-style gameplay.
 Both versions exist alongside each other.
No. 79 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) flight training unit that has been formed on four occasions since 1943.
 The squadron was established in May 1943 as a fighter unit equipped with Supermarine Spitfires, and subsequently saw combat in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II.
 Between June 1943 and the end of the war in August 1945 it flew air defence patrols to protect Allied bases and ships, escorted Australian and United States aircraft, and attacked Japanese positions.
 The squadron was disbanded in November 1945, but was re-formed between 1962 and 1968 to operate CAC Sabres from Ubon Air Base in Thailand.
 In this role it contributed to the defence of Thailand against a feared attack from its neighbouring states and exercised with United States Air Force units.
 No. 79 Squadron was active again at RAAF Base Butterworth in Malaysia between 1986 and 1988 where it operated Mirage III fighters and a single DHC-4 Caribou transport during the period in which the RAAF's fighter squadrons were transitioning to new aircraft.
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 December 1877 – 13 June 1967) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.
 He served in the First World War as a staff officer and then as Director-General of Military Aeronautics and subsequently as Controller-General of Equipment.
 In the inter-war years he held command positions in the Middle East, in India and then in Iraq.
 He served as Chief of the Air Staff in the mid-1930s and in that role he implemented a plan, known as 'Scheme F', to increase the size of the Royal Air Force to 187 squadrons (five bomber squadrons for every two fighter squadrons reflecting the dominance of the bomber strategy at the time) within three years to counter the threat from Hitler's Germany.
 He also broke up the command known as "Air Defence of Great Britain" to create RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and RAF Training Command.
 He then served as Inspector-General of the RAF until his retirement in 1940.
Admiral Thomas Bibb Hayward (born May 3, 1924) was Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) for the United States Navy from July 1, 1978, until June 30, 1982, after which he retired from military service.
 Shortly after the commencement of World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy V-5 aviation program and was called to active duty as a naval aviation cadet in 1943, anticipating that he would shortly be flying combat in the South Pacific.
 However, when roughly halfway through the flight training syllabus, he competed for and was accepted to attend the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, to position himself for a career in the U.S. Navy at war's end.
 He graduated from the Academy in July, 1947 and was assigned to the USS Antietam (CV-36) as an engineering officer.
 United States Naval Academy.
 USS Antietam (CV-36), In 1949 he returned to flight training at Pensacola, Florida,and received his United States Naval Aviator wings in July 1950.
 The Korean War having begun, then as Lieutenant junior grade, he reported to Fighter Squadron Fifty-One (VF-51) and flew from the decks of the USS Essex (CV-9) and USS Valley Forge (CV-45), accumulating 146 combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, ten Air Medals, and two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat "V" for Valor.
John Tucker "Chick" Hayward (15 November 1908 – 23 May 1999) was a World War II naval aviator.
 He helped develop one of the two atomic bombs that was dropped on Japan in the closing days of the war.
 Later, he was a pioneer in the development of nuclear propulsion, nuclear weapons, guidance systems for ground- and air-launched rockets, and underwater anti-submarine weapons.
 A former batboy for the New York Yankees, Hayward dropped out of high school and lied about his age to enlist in the United States Navy at age 16.
 He was subsequently admitted to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, from which he graduated 51st in his class of 1930.
 He volunteered for naval aviation.
A Service Squadron (ServRon) was a U.S. Navy squadron that supported fleet combat units.
 Service Squadrons were used by the United States Navy from their inception in 1943 to as late as the early 1980s.
 At the time of their inception during the Second World War they allowed the US Navy to operate across the vast reaches of the Pacific ocean for extended periods of time.
 Service Squadrons created temporary forward bases to allow the naval squadrons to spend less time in transit and more time in the area of combat.
 Ulithi, a small volcanic atoll in the central Pacific, is one such example.
 Service Squadrons essentially created a major naval base near the area of operation.
 With the naval base at Ulithi to refit, repair and resupply, many ships were able to deploy and operate in the western Pacific for a year or more without returning to a major port facility.
 Among the vessels operating in service squadrons were tankers, oilers, refrigerator ships, ammunition ships, supply ships, floating docks and repair ships.
 They provided diesel, ordnance, aviation fuel, food stuffs and all other supplies.
 Equally important at places like Ulithi were the portable piers and floating dry docks which allowed many ships damaged by enemy action or Pacific storms to undergo repair without having to travel the thousands of miles back to a major US naval base.
 Ulithi was as far forward from the US naval base at San Francisco as the San Francisco base was from London, England.
 To have a fully functional major port in the middle of the Pacific was a significant aid to U.S. Navy operations.
Albert Ogden "Scoop" Vorse Jr. was an accomplished World War II naval ace who participated in some of the most prominent actions of the Pacific Theater, including the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Guadalcanal Campaign.
 Vorse served in early fighter squadrons with legendary figures like Butch O'Hare and Jimmy Thach.
 Rising in rank throughout the war, he would act as Executive Officer and Operations Officer in different squadrons before being given command of his own squadron, VF-80, the eponymous "Vorse's Vipers".
 Vorse ended the war as commander of Air Group 80 and ultimately achieved Rear Admiral status before his retirement from the U.S. Navy in 1959.
John Henry Towers (January 30, 1885 – April 30, 1955) was a United States Navy admiral and pioneer naval aviator.
 He made important contributions to the technical and organizational development of naval aviation from its very beginnings, eventually serving as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics (1939–1942).
 He commanded carrier task forces during World War II, and retired in December 1947.
 He and Marc Mitscher were the only early Naval Aviation pioneers to survive the extreme hazards of early flight to remain with naval aviation throughout their careers.
 He was the first naval aviator to achieve flag rank and was the most senior advocate for naval aviation during a time when the Navy was dominated by battleship admirals.
 Towers spent his last years supporting aeronautical research and advising the aviation industry.
Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry “Butch” O’Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was an American naval aviator of the United States Navy, who on February 20, 1942, became the Navy's first flying ace when he single-handedly attacked a formation of nine heavy bombers approaching his aircraft carrier.
 Even though he had a limited amount of ammunition, he managed to shoot down or damage several enemy bombers.
 On April 21, 1942, he became the first naval recipient of the Medal of Honor in World War II.
John Smith "Jimmy" Thach (April 19, 1905 – April 15, 1981) was a World War II naval aviator, air combat tactician, and United States Navy admiral.
 Thach developed the Thach Weave, a combat flight formation that could counter enemy fighters of superior performance, and later the big blue blanket, an aerial defense against Kamikaze attacks.