WWII MIDWAY PILOT GEORGE GAY DIES - Deret News

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• GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
• DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
• GEE GAY, TORPEDO SQUADRON 8 PILOT AT MIDWAY, AVIATN ART, ERNIE BOYETTE
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• ENSIGN GEE H. GAY'S FATEFUL DAY, JUNE 4, 1942
• WWII MIDWAY PILOT GEORGE GAY DIES

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

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.

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

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. Gay watched the Amerin dive bombers hurtle out of the clouds to attack Japane aircraft rriers and found himself "cheerg and hollerg wh every h. Gay ma personal appearanc for the Navy, spreadg the news of the victory at Midway.

That victory -- achieved by an Amerin fleet wh only three heavy rriers agast four heavy Japane rriers and three light on -- was a turng pot the war that Gay was a Trans World Airl pilot for 30 years after the war. Gay toured the untry wh the film's stars, Charlton Hton and Henry Fonda, to promote the film. A native of Wa, Tex., he eventually moved to is survived by his wife, Esther Huffman Bevacqua Gay, and two stepchildren.

Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack. — “I really have had a good, good life, ” said Ts Gay on Sept.

GEE GAY, TORPEDO SQUADRON 8 PILOT AT MIDWAY, AVIATN ART, ERNIE BOYETTE

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. Unr wherg enemy fire om mache guns and anti-aircraft batteri, Gay ntued to prs his attack on a Japane rrier.

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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.

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY'S FATEFUL DAY, JUNE 4, 1942

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.

WWII MIDWAY PILOT GEORGE GAY DIES

’ 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.

” 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.