Mark Allen M wrote:
XTBU's / TBY-2's ...
Many thanks, Mark!
I'd already seen all the pics you posted, but then realized that I'd only seen a small format version of the first pic. Something caught my eye.
In the smaller format, I'd never noticed the gentleman in the pic before. Zooming in, I think I spotted the shoulder boards of a Lt. Commander.
Hmm? Why would someone take a pic of a lanky, Lt. Commander poking around an unknown bird like a Sea Wolf? And then it hit me...
I think it might be George Gay (of Midway fame). After Gay came back after his second tour with VT-11, he was promoted to Lt. Commander and made CO of VT-154/155. VT-155 was working up to be the first unit to take the TBY into combat, but the atom bombs brought all that to an end.
It's a long shot, nor can I think of any way to test the hypothesis!
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... even more so as I met George Gay at Oshkosh one year. Very nice fellow. The type person you really miss when their gone.
