Rellectns of Litenant Gee Gay

Contents:

• DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
• GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
• GEE R. GAY CFP®, AIF®
• GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME
• GEE H. GAY, JR.
• IS BOY GEE GAY: WHO’S GEE DATG NOW 2023?

DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR

Ensign Gee Gay (Circled) would be the only survivor of his squadron’s attack on June 4, 1942. Gee Gay [right] and his radman/gunner, ARM3c Robert K. Ensign Gee Gay’s Story.

Gay, Jr. Gay was the pilot of a Devastator torpedo bomber VT-8, and like every sgle man his squadron, he experienced the terror of beg shot down at sea. Gay sat there bobbg up and down the water, the middle of the Japane fleet, probably thkg his life was over, tryg sperately to hi unr his seat chn.

Ensign Gay saw the U.

GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK

— “I really have had a good, good life, ” said Ts Gay on Sept. Gay held urt om her fy livg room chair wrapped a goln boa wh a matchg crown wh the number 100 on top. Gay is the widow of Gee Gay, a Navy pilot and rated hero of the Battle of Midway.

Ts Gay grew up outsi Washgton, D. ” After graduatg high school, Gay stayed the D.

Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospal, wh a nurse and a py of the Honolulu Star-Bullet newspaper featurg acunts of the battle. Gee Gay, then an ensign, was a pilot assigned to Torpedo Squadron 8, which was tasked wh skg Japane vsels.

GEE R. GAY CFP®, AIF®

Unr wherg enemy fire om mache guns and anti-aircraft batteri, Gay ntued to prs his attack on a Japane rrier. When Gay went to fire his torpedo for the first time his life, nothg happened.

Gay quickly beme a celebry after his rcue.

GAY POP LEGEND GEE MICHAEL TO BE IMMORTALIZED ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

(See edor’s note below)Ts Gay and granddghter Terri French talk to fay members who uldn't e person by vio chat Marietta, Ga., on Sept. But Ts Gay said the first time she met her future hband, she had only a vague ia of who he was.

“I was roomg wh this iend, Srlet, and she me home one night and she said ‘We’ve got an vatn to go to Gee Gay’s birthday party.

’ I said ‘Who’s Gee Gay? ’” Lookg back, Ts Gay said she loved him om the start. “Only Gee Gay was the type that uld do , though.

GEE H. GAY, JR.

” They were married 1946 and lived Marietta while Gee Gay worked as a pta for Trans World Airl for over 30 years. Ts Gay said she remembers those years as some of the happit of her life.

Gay said her favore plac were Athens and Paris. Ts Gay, too, regularly traveled to Washgton to attend Battle of Midway ceremoni followg her hband’s ath. After Gee Gay died 1994, his ash were sttered the ocean where he fought and bled.

IS BOY GEE GAY: WHO’S GEE DATG NOW 2023?

Senators, Amerin Legn Commanr Jam Oxford and Marietta Mayor Steve Tuml, who honored the uple 2012 by namg June 4 Ts and Gee Gay Day Marietta, markg the Battle of Midway’s 70th anniversary. Gay had a ltle fun wh one of the sailors and asked if she uld try on his uniform hat. ” Ts Gay said what other people ll class is a matter of rpectg onelf, somethg she thks today’s youngsters uld learn to do better.

50-liber mache-gun turret, was killed actn wh Japane fighters durg the attack (Natnal Archiv) Navy Tim edor’s note: It’s te that Ensign Gay was assigned to VT-8 on the aircraft rrier Hor (CV-8) and he was the only survivor om his tachment, but I don’t believe this story is rrect about Earnt and Ferrier flyg om another of all, there were three men their plane.

Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack ADVERTISEMENTOct. Gay Jr., a pilot who was the only survivor of his torpedo squadron the battle of Midway, and who drifted the sea as the most important naval battle of World War II unfold around him, died on Friday at Kenntone Hospal here. Gay flew a Douglas Devastator torpedo plane an attack on Japane warships near Midway Island on June 4, the plan his squadron were shot down, and he was the only one of 30 men Torpedo Squadron 8 to survive.