Historian, novelist and former ngrsman Robert Mrazek has wrten a new history of Ensign Gee Gay's un, Torpedo Squadron Eight. A Dawn Like Thunr tells the story of Gay's squadron's victory at the Battle of Midway.
Contents:
- ENSIGN GEE H. GAY'S FATEFUL DAY, JUNE 4, 1942
- FAIR WDS & FOLLOWG SEAS LCDR GEE HENRY GAY, JR.
- ENSIGN GEE H. GAY
ENSIGN GEE H. GAY'S FATEFUL DAY, JUNE 4, 1942
Meet Ts, the wife of Midway pilot Gee H. Gay. * ensign george gay book *
— “I really have had a good, good life, ” said Ts Gay on Sept.
FAIR WDS & FOLLOWG SEAS LCDR GEE HENRY GAY, JR.
An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway. * ensign george gay book *
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.
ENSIGN GEE H. GAY
Narrative of events durg the Battle of Midway by Ens. Gee Gay -- sole survivor of VT-8 (Hor's torpedo bombers) * ensign george gay book *
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.
Gay wasn’t actually the squ * ensign george gay book *
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.
’ 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.
For Ensign Gee H. Gay, Jr. of Wa, Texas, the morng of June 4, 1942 began wh groggy trepidatn. Wh knowledge of a large Japane vasn fleet movg towards Midway Island outnumberg the assembled Amerin naval force, Gay did not sleep well., * ensign george gay book *
” 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.
Ts Gay, too, regularly traveled to Washgton to attend Battle of Midway ceremoni followg her hband’s ath. After Gee Gay died 1994, his ash were sttered the ocean where he fought and bled.
Genealogy for Ensign Gee H. Gay (1917 - 1994) fay tree on Geni, wh over 250 ln profil of anctors and livg relativ. * ensign george gay book *
Senators, Amerin Legn Commanr Jam Oxford and Marietta Mayor Steve Tuml, who honored the uple 2012 by namg June 4 Ts and Gee Gay Day Marietta, markg the Battle of Midway’s 70th anniversary. Gay had a ltle fun wh one of the sailors and asked if she uld try on his uniform hat.
” Ts Gay said what other people ll class is a matter of rpectg onelf, somethg she thks today’s youngsters uld learn to do better.