Rellectns of Litenant Gee Gay

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

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

Reviewed the Uned Stat on July 20, 2021Gee Gay is unqutnably an Amerin hero.

Gay beme a celebry, but Earnt and Ferrier did not. Gay has a love/hate relatnship wh celebry, alternatg between relishg and spisg . Gay, not jt a tellg of the Battle of Midway.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 26, 2013The tobgraphil story of ENS Gee Gay, the sgle survivor among 16 US Navy torpedo bombers wh 3-person crews, attackg a Japane rrier durg the Battle of Midway, wily nsired the most nsequential Naval battle history.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on March 14, 2011My ed py was signed by Gay, fely a keeper. While other thors may disagree wh some of Gay's story, the fact remas that this is a facatg reuntg of a brave pilot's experienc as the last remag member of Waldron's VT-8 at the Battle of Midway. 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. 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.