An oral history om Lt. Gee Gay, the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 durg the Battle of Midway.
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
Narrative of events durg the Battle of Midway by Ens. Gee Gay -- sole survivor of VT-8 (Hor's torpedo bombers) * ensign gay battle of midway *
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.
GEE H. GAY, 77; WAS SOLE SURVIVOR IN A MIDWAY ATTACK
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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.
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ENSIGN GEE H. GAY AFTER 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.
Gee Gay [right] and his radman/gunner, ARM3c Robert K.
Ensign Gee Gay’s Story. Gay, Jr. 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.
ENSIGN GEE H. GAY
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gay, 77; Was Sole Survivor In a Midway Attack. — “I really have had a good, good life, ” said Ts Gay on Sept.
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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.
It has been 65 years sce the pivotal Battle of Midway changed the urse of World War II. Ensign Gee Gay flew a formatn of 15 torpedo bombers and watched as every other plane his squadron were shot down as they approached the Japane aircraft rriers. * ensign gay 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. When Gay went to fire his torpedo for the first time his life, nothg happened.