Dean R. Gilmore, a first lieutenant in the USAAF born November 14, 1921, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in Italy in 1944 and was killed in a training crash in Lake Louisa on November 14, 1944. Gilmore and thousands of other military aviators trained throughout central Florida during World War II. Wreckage from the crash was cleared by the Lake County Sheriff's Office dive team under Sheriff George E. Knupp, Jr.