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li r Rear Admiral Donald Gay, Jr., USN CCDMMANDER CARRIER DIVISICDN EIGHTEEN r M Y I 'huh' 7 g-,- V-VAL--su w,y K A A
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Donald Gay, Jr., born in NewporT News, Virginia, on April 22, T9TLi, son of The laTe Donald and MarTha Louise Gay, aTTended public schools in The NewporT News area. Upon graduaTion from The US, Naval Academy, Annapolis Maryland, he was commissioned an Ensign on 23 June T937, and was assigned To The baTTleship NEVADA and laTer The desTroyer STTVTTVTS. in April T9LiT, afTer compleTion of flighT Training aT Pensacola, Elorida, Rear Admiral Gay was designaTed a Naval AviaTor. He Then reporTed To RaTrol Squadron ST which was employed in neuTraliTy paTrols and anTi-sub- marine operaTions in The ATlanTic aT The sTarT of World War ll. He laTer commanded a paTrol bombing squadron which operaTed from England under The Royal Air Eorce Coasfal Command in The Bay of Biscay, anTi-submarine offen- sive and in supporT of The Normandy landings. ln T945-T946 he served in The Office of The Chief of Naval Opera- Tions and on deTachmenT Took command of EighTing Squadron Lil based on The U.S.S. ERANKLIN D, ROOSEVELT, In T949 he was made navigaTor of The ROOSEVELT and on reTurn from iTs Mediferranean deploymenT aTTended The Armed Eorces STaff College, Norfolk, Virginia. Upon graduaTion, he was ordered To The STaff of The RresidenT of The Naval War College. In T952 he was ordered To command Air Group THREE and in ThaT capaciTy was deployed in The MediTerranean aboard The U.S.S. LEYTE. In T955 he was ordered To NATO duTy serving as Rlans Officer for The Commander Naval STriking Eorces, SouThern Europe based aT Naples, lTaly. In T956 he served as DirecTor of Service TesT, aT The Naval Air TesT CenTer, RaTuxenT River, Maryland, where in addiTion To qualifying in every -Naval high performance aircrafT, he organized and supervised The EleeT InTroducTion Programs which phased This family of aircrafT, beTTer known as The Super Six , info fleeT operaTions. He became OperaTions Officer for The SEVENTH EleeT, operaTing in Ear EasTern Wafers in T957. ln May of T959 he Took command of The U.S.S. ELOYDS BAY TAVE-ZTOJ in Hong Kong, BriTish Crown Colony, and conTinued operaTions as a uniT of The SEVENTH EleeT. On L1 June T96O, in The harbor of Kobei, Japan, he Took command of The U.S.S. RANGER, an aTT ack carrier of The SEVENTH EleeT and served as her Commanding Officer unTil 5 May T96T. Upon deTachmenT he reporTed To The Office of The Chief of Naval Opera- Tions on ST May T96T. A . Rear Admiral Gay was selecTed To his presenf rank in May T963 and GSSUVNSCT Command Of Carrier DTVTSTOVW ETGHTEEN on ,July 8, T963. He has Twice received The DisTinguished Elying Cross and he is TherecipienTof The Bronze STar wiTh CombaT V, Three air medals and various campaign and occupafion ribbons. Admiral Gay and his wife, Mickey, reside in NorTh KingsTon, Rhode Island. Their only son, Donald, QT, is a Corporal in The Marine Corps. They have Two daughfers, Rriscilla, TS, and Tracy Treadwell, Li. T
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