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Mihiel Gilormini, known to his troops as Gilo, earned his pilot wings when he joined England's Royal Air Force prior to World War II in 1941. As part of the United States Air Corps, he flew over 250 missions during the war and named his P-47 El Gallo de Yauco. In 1947 he returned to Puerto Rico as a captain and became a co-founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard at Base Aérea Muñoz.
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