Kostas Perrikos
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Kostas Perrikos was a Greek Airforce officer who, during the WWII occupation of Greece by the Axis powers, founded the resistance organisation PEAN.
Perrikos was originally from Kallimasia, Chios. He was a Venizelist and, as such, was dismissed from the Airforce following the failed coup of 1935.
During the Axis occupation of Greece, Perrikos founded the Panhellenic Union of young Fighters (PEAN). On September 20, 1942, PEAN blew up the offices