Word: papageorgiou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgios Papageorgiou of Zoumerka is a private in the Greek army, 9th division, 43rd brigade. He can hardly remember a time when there was peace in his country. He has fought the Italians and the Germans, now he fights the Communists. A veteran of two years' warfare against the Red guerrillas, he has seen action at Konitsa, in Epirus, in the Grammos mountains, in the Peloponnesus. He does not know what became of his family; like hundreds & thousands of other Greeks, they fled from Red terror. They may be in a refugee camp; they may be dead. Some...
Last week, Private Papageorgiou's heart was high, his spirits soaring. The Greek army was slowly beating back the Communist guerrillas who, more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
...Fleet commands neither Private Papageorgiou nor any other Greek soldier. His job is to give advice and to supervise the flow of U.S. arms and supplies (nearly $300,000,000 had been authorized by December 1948) to their army. But he has given the Greeks a great deal more than that. He has given them hope...
...Private Papageorgiou and his comrades knew that there was bitter fighting ahead, and many a defeat. But almost for the first time since they began their weary marches, they believed that they would...
...Fleet, who has a soldier's impatience with political monkeyshines, leaves most of the dealings with the Greek cabinet to Ambassador Henry F. Grady, who heads the American mission for aid to Greece. Van Fleet is inclined to agree with Greek soldiers like Private Georgios Papageorgiou who sometimes says that, when he finishes with the Communists, he will go to Athens and settle the politicians' hash...
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