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The Flying Greek: An Immigrant Fighter Ace's WWII Odyssey with the Raf, Usaaf, and French Resistance

The Flying Greek: An Immigrant Fighter Ace's WWII Odyssey with the Raf, Usaaf, and French Resistance

Cronkite, Walter
Pisanos, Col Steven N.

Hardcover

Military Biographies20th Century United States HistoryWorld War II

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1597970786
ISBN13: 9781597970785
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Steve N. Pisanos's The Flying Greek is both the classic tale of an immigrant's bond with America and an aerial adventure.

When young Pisanos arrived in the U.S. in 1938, he worked, studied English, and learned to fly. He earned a private pilot's license in 1941, and soon after Germany invaded Greece, he volunteered for the embattled British Royal Air Force. He served with the 268 and 71 Eagle Squadrons. The 71 Eagle Squadron was one of three Eagle squadrons comprised of U.S. volunteers. In 1942, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen while in London, England. He was the first individual in American history to become a citizen while outside the U.S. border, and his becoming a citizen allowed him to be commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces. In riveting detail, Pisanos recounts his combat record, from fighter sweeps and bomber escort missions to dogfighting, flying the Spitfire, the P-47, and the P-51. While flying a P-47 named Miss Plainfield, he scored his first aerial victory on May 21, 1943. By January 1, 1944, he had become an ace.

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