Meet Ts, the wife of Midway pilot Gee H. Gay.
Contents:
- DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
- BOY GEE: ‘I WAS ABED EVERY DAY FOR BEG GAY THE 70S’
- SURVIVOR EPISO 2: THIS IS SHONEE'S WORLD AND WE ARE JT LIVG + PLAYER OUT AS GAY!
DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
Midway was an improbable victory, but nothg was more improbable than what happened that day to Ensign Gee H. Gay. * is george gay 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.
BOY GEE: ‘I WAS ABED EVERY DAY FOR BEG GAY THE 70S’
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Ensign Gay saw the U. Gay wasn’t actually the squadron’s sole survivor, but he was as disputably brave as the two others om Torpedo Eight who survived the battle that day. Historians generally agree that the most ntemporaneo statements are the most reliable; therefore, this narrative of Gay’s actns and observatns on 4 June is drawn om the ial statements he ma to his rcuers and to the Navy shortly thereafter.One of VT-8’s Green PilotsThree days before the battle, Litenant Commanr John Waldron, the manr of Torpedo Eight, addrsed his pilots their ready room on board the Hor, ncludg at one pot, “You might want to tidy up your personal affairs and wre a letter home jt se some of don’t get back.”It had never stck Tex that he wouldn’t get back.
The dwdlg formatn was still om the rriers when two Zero moved to attack Gay’s plane.
A One-Plane AttackGay began jkg his plane, si-slippg between the Zero’ mache-gun bursts, drawg ever closer to the neart rrier. As Gay closed toward the rrier, she began swgg to starboard to avoid his torpedo. He was gog down.Usg the elevators, Gay kept the Devastator’s nose up as the bomber dropped toward the sea.
SURVIVOR EPISO 2: THIS IS SHONEE'S WORLD AND WE ARE JT LIVG + PLAYER OUT AS GAY!
An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway. * is george gay survivor *
Gay grabbed the black seat chn and held over his head, wag until the pilot fished his n. From Rcue to NimzAll that day, Gay floated the sea. Gay spread his arms horizontally, which was the “roger” sign for beg okay.
It was Admiral Chter Nimz, the Pacific Fleet Commanr--Chief.When Gay tried to e to attentn lyg down, Admiral Nimz said: “Relax son. “I’d like you to tell me what you saw out there, son,” said the admiral.Gay reunted what had happened om the time they sighted the Japane rriers until he was shot down.
He told Gay that people back home were qutng what the Navy had been dog sce Pearl Harbor.