Greeks in Foreign Cockpits

Aviation History is our passion. We are preserving the story of Hellenic parentage pilots from WW1 until our days!

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Μόλις δημοσίευσε μια φωτογραφία https://t.co/13Uf0mcCNO

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TOP GUN...Greek Style Part II.

There are times i consider myself lucky. Reading the exceptional magazine COMBAT AIRCRAFT MONTHLY i discovered that the current CO of the famous TOP GUN
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@LavrentisBeria4 Για περεταίρω λεπτομέρειες μπορείτε να περιηγηθείτε στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο και τα αντίστοιχα βιβλία μας https://t.co/MBpDj2eM6r. Ειδικά για το θέμα του Πλαγη δημοσιεύτηκε όλο το αρχείο του σε συνεργασία με την κόρη του Jill. Καλημέρα.

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Colonel George Jatras was born in Clairton, Pennsylvania on March 29, 1931. His parents were both from Lakonia, with his father Agisilaos Iatreidis from (to the best of Jatras’s knowledge) from Melitini ...

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TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN MARINE

Ralph Byron Pappas was a USMC pilot who was killed during the Vietnam War, not while flying his precious Skyhawk but while being on the ground, serving as a Forward Air Controller for his....

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@RealTedPappas @USMC Dear Ted can you send me photos and information regarding the family immigration story for Ralph Pappas in order to tribute him in my webpage? I will start drawing a VMF-211 A-4 for his tribute. Please drop me an email here or in [email protected]
Kind regards
Dimitris

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GEORGE T. PAPPAS
USN Vietnam Vet. A-7A SLUF Pilot.

Commander George T. Pappas, USN, was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1930. He was the son of the Greek immigrant Theodore Pappas and Ruby Pappas. Theodore...

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GUS J. STATHIS Vietnam USAF Veteran

Konstantine Efstathiou Stathis was born in 1941 in Jacksonville, Florida. His father Ioannis was born in Leonidio, Peloponnese and his mother Metaxia is from Spetses and..

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Fallen Eagle

Sergeant Demosthenes Demades was a Greek pilot of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War. He was born in 1919...

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@RealTedPappas
Dear Ted I’m looking forward to hear from you regarding a tribute concerning your uncle Ralph Byron Pappas. Sorry I couldn’t find any other way to reach you. Greetings from Greece.

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First Vietnam Greek American veteran tribute in our website!

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NOT EVERY HERO FLEW!

Tribute to Charles Petrakos. The first Greek - American awarded the Silver Star in WW2 for heroic actions during the Pearl Harbor raid, where he shot down one Zero and probably one more! For more details follow the link below:

https://t.co/7SJyVfmZ6q

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Top Gun....Greek style. Meet the Greek ace of aces, John Agorastos Plagis (16 kills) who flew with RAF over Malta and Northwest Europe, during WW2.

https://t.co/pXFCt1FaBA

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A Tribute to 1st Lt. Peter Manual Darakis…Greek American FAC/A who was killed in action during the Korean War.

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https://t.co/UMfNoyAlnK…/fighter-pilots…

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@BAMHelen Dear Helen I’m trying to establish contact with Charles Vasiliadis family for years. I hope to respond as I’m trying to tribute him in my webpage https://t.co/mcQfjJKG0W.

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Dear friends, follow the link below and find an incredible story of the Greek American F-14 Tomcat pilot, Alex ‘Yogi’ Hnarakis, whose Top Gun experience was the inspiration for ‘Maverick’ character in the TOP GUN movie.

https://t.co/fx1N1vHxFZ