Career
Born in Larissa in 1919, he fought in the Greco-Italian War as a Reserve 2nd Lieutenant of Engineers. With the onset of the Occupation, he joined the EAM-ELAS, rising to become commander of the Olympus Engineers Battalion, with which he was engaged in numerous sabotage acts against the railway network used by the occupation forces, including the destruction of over 47 railway installations, 20 trains and 12 locomotives. His On February 1944, he blew up a German train, full of German troops on their way to the Eastern Front.
This cost the Wehrmacht 450 dead, including 150 officers and a general with all his staff
This action is considered as one of the biggest sabotages in Europe, against the German occupation. During the subsequent civil war of 1946-1949, he led a saboteur brigade of the communist Democratic Army of Greece.
Following the communists" defeat, he went to exile in Tashkent and Romania.
