Ensign Gee H. Gay After the Battle of Midway | The World War II Multimedia Database

Contents:

• DECIDG WHETHER TO LIVE OR DIE: GEE GAY, MIDWAY SURVIVOR
• GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
• ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
• ENSIGN GEE H. GAY

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

Battle of Midway: Ensign Gay, Oral History. Litenant Gay scrib what he nsirs the Uned Stat' errors the Battle of Midway.

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

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.

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

Gay, do you md tellg a few of your early war experienc before the Battle of Midway?

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

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY

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

Gay, Jr.

ENSIGN GEE H. GAY

Gay was the pilot of a Devastator torpedo bomber VT-8, and like every sgle man his squadron, he experienced the terror of beg shot down at sea. Gay sat there bobbg up and down the water, the middle of the Japane fleet, probably thkg his life was over, tryg sperately to hi unr his seat chn. Ensign Gay saw the U.

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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. 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. 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.