Rellectns of Litenant Gee Gay

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Narrative of events durg the Battle of Midway by Ens. Gee Gay -- sole survivor of VT-8 (Hor's torpedo bombers)

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

An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway. * lt gay battle of midway *

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.

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

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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.

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

Midway was an improbable victory, but nothg was more improbable than what happened that day to Ensign Gee H. Gay. * lt gay battle of midway *

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. 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.

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY

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., * lt gay battle of midway *

Litenant Gay scrib what he nsirs the Uned Stat' errors the Battle of Midway. Litenant Gay was born 8 March 1917, at Wa, Texas.

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

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY

Gee Gay Jr., who beme a natnal hero as the only Amerin aviator to survive a World War II attack on Japane warships durg the Battle of Midway, has died Friday. * lt gay 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.

Genealogy for Ensign Gee H. Gay (1917 - 1994) fay tree on Geni, wh over 250 ln profil of anctors and livg relativ. * lt gay battle of midway *

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. Gee Gay [right] and his radman/gunner, ARM3c Robert K. Ensign Gee Gay’s Story.

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Decidg Whether to Live or Die: Gee Gay, Midway Survivor .

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