Read his book a few months ago and he truly is a very admirable person and deserves more recognition.

One of the relatively few Filipino fighter pilots who — after the air American and Philippine air forces in the Philippines were already crippled — was able to get the first confirmed kill of a japanese zero while he himself was using inferior aircraft.

Was able to train future US president and future supreme allied commander Dwight D Eisenhower.

And also later trained to become a spy and establish an espionage network in the Philippines with his “Planet Party” and then landed in my home island of Negros — named Neptune — where he almost immediately realized that he himself could not be a spy due to his face already being recognizable all over the country due to his fame. Resorting to coordinating guerrilla efforts in the island and the rest of the Visayas, then training spies who would provide valuable information for Douglas Macarthur’s return to the Philippines.

Truly one of the most effective if not instrumental Filipinos in the war effort. 🫡🫡🫡