Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1942 — Page 5

TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1042

BAY ONCE TOLD Ensign With 'Fish-Eye' View of Naval Battle |",

(Continued from Page One) Eve-Witness of Sea Fight|of his squadron on the morning of

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was wise,” he said, “but I had had

eral emergency patches on the hul«

Several hours after sunrise a

picked him up.

’ | ’ 'n let holes in his raft, so it would sus- 5 TO ‘TOUGHEN UP Pictures Jap Carriers Bursting Into Flames): oc inti rat. . - p ER (ice em, {navy petrol iene spotted Gays \ . y When the attack ended and the 5 genpiste cawie and y} ¥ oh Bo IS

June 4 when the Japanese made

Twice Rejected by Army their attack on Midway. Guns Suddenly Roar

Before Joining Navy. { was miidnotring when the

HOUSTON, Tex, June 9 (U. P). planes reached the scene. They saw —Ensign George H. Gay Jr, 25, pelow them, on the sea, three Japwho saw the naval battle off Mid-|,;.c0 carriers in line, 10 miles be-

way island while he floated for 19] holits oh & rubber raft, was rejected|tWeen the first and third, with a

twice by the army air corps and considerable force of cruisers and advised to “toughen up.” destroyers around them. Then he turned to the navy and! pni.dreds of anti-aircraft guns was accepted in February, 1841, hij, .t into fire when their planes mother said last night. were sighted. She was thrilled at news her ba¥| v.. Americans attacked through

was only slightly wounded, but was " ; apanese fighter planes which raced upset because “those two boys with to challenge ot

hifi id fot come out af well Gay's machine gunner was hit,|

Mrs. Gay and her husband, for- fut the plane kept oh. Gay held merly in the oil business, said they | is torpedo until he was almost on had received a cablegram from}, e carrier. As he let it go, he their son earlier saying he Was | swung his plane sharply over his “getting along fine.” .

| were circling it, awaiting a chanceito get near enough to remove at

smoke cleared somewhat Gay saw| aq he flew back he saw graphical. [| INGTON the second Kaga carrier aflame from| sy what had Pe Eatg. F _ the mm end to end. battle area were life rafts, debs a — A Japanese destroyer drovel ang great ofl patches, a straight toward Gay and only at the] Gay's wounds are not serious. He last instant did it swerve. A heavy is 4 graduate of Texas Agricultural cruiser steamed up to within 500) 5g Mechanical college, a civil and yards. mechanical engineer, and took his Gay saw the cruiser’s crew lining| fight training at Jacksonville and the rail, their white uniforms gleam«| nfjami, Fla. ing against the ship's war paint,| watching grimly their carriers burn.

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“George has always been inter. [target and spe astern. to rescue the crew. least some men. design. You'll need while 2000 last. Limit ested in airplanes” Mrs. Gay said] Alone in Midst of Enemy Twenty minutes later American| All this time, Japanese planes Plenty oT Smmer Louder. “He made model planes as a child] !dive bombers roared over the Jap- were circling above, apparently try- beverages, Save at the Leader.

and even while he was growing up. | Later, at Texas A. & M. college, he his rudder controls and seared his

studied aeronautical engineering jeft leg. A bullet struck his upper/down. He saw them score direct| Darkness began to fall. Gay be- : ” |hits on the other carriers. Great|gan to inflate his raft with carbon i | fires burst out in both ships. Smoke | dioxide contained in a bottle atGay brought his plane into a stall oi) cky-darkened clouds, and | tached to it.

for three and a half years. left arm. When he first tried to join {he} army air corps he was told to get |

some outdoor work to toughen him- and pancaked into the sea. His| flames shot from them. Every now

self up. He got a construction job gunner had died. The radio man, at Corpus Christi for a year and trapped, could not pull free then went to San Antonio and ap-| At 11 a. m, alone struggling in plied again. His application wasithe water in the middle of the not immediately accepted, s0 heenemy fleet, Gay watched his turned to the navy.” | wrecked plane slide under the waves. As it disappeared there floated

NAZ! EDITOR ADMITS |out from it a bag containing his de-

| flated rubber life raft and the black

SUPERIORITY OF RAF | cushion on which the radioman—

Copyright, 1842 by The Indianapolis Times bombardier kneels during attack. and The Chicago Dailv News, Ine Guy struggled to the raft, which

y v 9 | BERN, June 8.—A blunt out Iwas awash because it had not been spoken admission that the Luft- linflated

waffe is at present incapable of] answering the Royal Air force Sees Second Carrier Aflame

bombings appears in an article] o.¢ watched all three carriers,

reaching here today, signed by Ru-| dolf Kircher, chief editor of the pe) Rie on planes, the Kagas at each fluential Frankfurter Zeitung fend of the line with the smaller one Kircher confesses that the Luft- between them. waffe cannot retaliate now to the] One of the Kagas was burning British raids as its forces are seat-| fiercely even while planes landed tered from Africa to Norway andon it Sweden and on the Russian front! Japanese cruisers and destroyers

An explosive shell tore through| ....s formation. ing vainly to land on the smashed

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