last of Torpedo Eight's TBDs, T-16 (BuNo 1506), flown by LCDR John C. Waldron with Horace Franklin Dobbs, CRMP, in the rear seat, taking off USS Hornet on 4 June 1942. Ensign George Gay (right), sole survivor of USS Hornet' s VT-8 squadron at Midway , standing in front of a TBD.