Helias Doundoulakis

Helias Doundoulakis was born in Canton, Ohio, of Greek immigrant parents, in 1923. At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to Crete, Greece, and there they lived uneventfully until the Germans attacked the island in May of 1941. After a two-year involvement with a Cretan resistance group, led by his brother George and SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, he was evacuated by the SOE to Lybia after they were betrayed. In Cairo, Egypt, he and his brother enlisted in the United States Army and wer