Midway was an improbable victory, but nothg was more improbable than what happened that day to Ensign Gee H. Gay.
Contents:
- DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
- ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
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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.
ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
Meet Ts, the wife of Midway pilot Gee H. Gay. * ensign george gay interview *
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. — “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 wasn’t actually the squ * ensign george gay interview *
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.
Narrative of events durg the Battle of Midway by Ens. Gee Gay -- sole survivor of VT-8 (Hor's torpedo bombers) * ensign george gay interview *
Gee Gay, then an ensign, was a pilot assigned to Torpedo Squadron 8, which was tasked wh skg Japane vsels.
An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway. * ensign george gay interview *
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. (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.
It has been 65 years sce the pivotal Battle of Midway changed the urse of World War II. Ensign Gee Gay flew a formatn of 15 torpedo bombers and watched as every other plane his squadron were shot down as they approached the Japane aircraft rriers. * ensign george gay interview *
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.