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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
• ENSIGN GEE H. GAY'S FATEFUL DAY, JUNE 4, 1942
• ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
• GAY, SURVIVOR OF BATTLE OF MIDWAY, DI
• ENSIGN GEE H. GAY

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

Rellectns of Litenant Gee Gay, USNR -- sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) -- scribg his experienc durg the Battle of Midway. Gay:. Gay?

Thank you very much Litenant Gay. Then-Ensign Gee Gay, U.

None of Torpedo 8’s 15 Devastators returned, and Gay was the sole survivor of all who took off that morng om Hor. Naval History and Herage Command, Gay remembers the Battle of Midway and his squadron. Gee Gay, USNR: Well, as you know Torpedo [Squadron] 8 was anized Norfolk [Virgia] and I thk you know the history of the [aircraft rrier USS] Hor [CV 8] and where we went and what we did.

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

Gay, Jr. Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospal wh a nurse and a py of the Honolulu Star-Bullet newspaper featurg acunts of the battle.

Gay’s book Sole Survivor dit that the date of this photograph is probably June 7, 1942, followg an operatn to repair his jured left hand and a meetg wh Adm. Battle of Midway: Ensign Gay, Oral History. Litenant Gay scrib what he nsirs the Uned Stat' errors the Battle of Midway.

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

Litenant Gay was born 8 March 1917, at Wa, Texas.

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY

Litenant Gee Gay,. We are about to obta a narrative om Litenant Gee Gay, who, as Ensign Gay, was the sole survivor of Torpedo 8 at the Battle of Midway.

GAY, SURVIVOR OF BATTLE OF MIDWAY, DI

Gay, do you md tellg a few of your early war experienc before the Battle of Midway? Gay:Y, a 20 mm.

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.

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY

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. Ensign Gee Gay (Circled) would be the only survivor of his squadron’s attack on June 4, 1942.