The last Greek survivor of World War II, Air Marshal (ret.) Constantine Chatzilakos, passed away on Monday aged 102, according to AMNA.
Greece’s President, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, paid tribute to Constantine on Tuesday and spoke of “his guileless love for his homeland and his devotion to its defence.”
“We pay our respectful goodbyes to the heroic pilot and the last survivor of World War II, Air Marshal (ret.) Constantine Chatzilakos, who participated in over 200 war operations,” Sakellaropoulou wrote on Twitter.
Born in Larissa, Greece in 1920, Constantine enrolled at the Hellenic Air Force Academy when he was only 20 years old.
During WWII, Constantine was a fighter pilot and carried out over 200 missions on the battlefields of North Africa, the Mediterranean, Italy, Yugoslavia and the Aegean Sea. He was awarded ten war medals for his efforts.
In November 1943, Constantine become part of history unawares as one of the pilots who provided air protection to missions taking British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to meet with USSR leader Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference.
After the war, Constantine became an instructor in military schools of all three arms of the Hellenic armed forces, as well as commander of large air units and director of operations at NATO headquarters.
As a veteran fighter pilot, Constantine was President of the British Royal Air Force Veterans Association, Athens Branch.
Source: AMNA.
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