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Thy Flying Greek: An Immigrant Fighter Ace’s WWII Odyssey With the RAF, USAAF, and French Resistance by Colonel Steve N. Pisanos, U.S. Air Force (ret.) Potomac Books, Herndon, Va., $34.95 Born in the Athenian suburb of Kolonos on November 10, 1919, Spiros Nicholas Pisanos was a merchant seaman in April 1938 when he jumped ship …
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