"When I was in the States I had very happy days. Today is the most happiest day in my life when I am an American citizen."
Flushed with happiness, olive-skinned Lieut. Spiros Nickolas ("Steve") Pissanos, U.S. fighter pilot in Britain, thus haltingly voiced his appreciation of Army tape-cutting which had just made him a U.S. citizen as well. He had left his native Greece in 1938, landed in New York with $8, got a $13-a-week job in a bakery and within two months saved enough money to start flying lessons. He enlisted in the...
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