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
- NH 70340 GEE H. GAY, JR.
- GEE H. GAY, JR.
DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway. * george gay navy *
Then-Ensign Gee Gay, U. None of Torpedo 8’s 15 Devastators returned, and Gay was the sole survivor of all who took off that morng om Hor.
ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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Naval History and Herage Command, Gay remembers the Battle of Midway and his squadron.
Gee Gay, USNR: Well, as you know Torpedo [Squadron] 8 was anized Norfolk [Virgia] and I thk you know the history of the [aircraft rrier USS] Hor [CV 8] and where we went and what we did. Gay, Jr. Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospal wh a nurse and a py of the Honolulu Star-Bullet newspaper featurg acunts of the battle.
Gay’s book Sole Survivor dit that the date of this photograph is probably June 7, 1942, followg an operatn to repair his jured left hand and a meetg wh Adm. Gay?
NH 70340 GEE H. GAY, JR.
Meet Ts, the wife of Midway pilot Gee H. Gay. * george gay navy *
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.
GEE H. 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.
— “I really have had a good, good life, ” said Ts Gay on Sept.