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Reviewed the Uned Stat on November 16, 2012The story would be tertg enough but Capta Gay was a legendat TWA when I worked there the 60's. Reviewed the Uned Stat on Febary 15, 2006When those who re enough to remember thk of Gee Gay; they variably thk of him as Ensign Gay; the lone survivor of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) who was shot down at sea and while floatg the midst of the Japane fleet wnsed the Battle of Midway. It's almost as if Gay is ozen time and will always be an ensign.
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But that sgle event, no matter how dramatic, don't pletely fe Gee Gay. And, as you will fd by readg his book, there was much more to "Ensign" Gay's life than jt that one fortuo circumstance; although did, to a large extent, shape and terme the urse of his later Gee Gay, all began when he was accepted as a naval air t shortly before the Japane attack on Pearl Harbor. Although wound, Ensign Gay stayed the air long enough to release his torpedo and then, after dchg his plane, beme the only survivor of VT-8.
In the meantime, while tryg sperately not to be seen by the Japane ships all around him, he watched the Battle of Midway, wnsed the three damaged Japane aircraft rriers burng and skg, and saw the enemy's rrier aircraft fallg to the his revery, and rehabilatn Hawaii, Gay went back to the Stat as a natnal hero. Once aga, Gay's luck held.
He was bumped om his flight by his Group Commanr who was killed along wh everyone else on board when Gay's assigned DC-3 crashed at his tour of duty was up, Gay was orred back to the Stat where he aga ma personal appearanc to aid the war effort before reportg to Opa-locka, Florida. Wh the war wdg down 1945 and havg won the Navy Cross, Gay was eligible for early release.