Stylianos Pattakos in Karpathos

Dictator Stylianos Pattakos visited Karpathos on the Greek Destroyer Leon (D-54) in 1970. Pattakos is the last living former dictator from Greece's military junta. The Leon, incidentally, formerly served the U.S. Navy as the U.S.S. Eldridge (DE-173), which was famous for its alleged role in the Philadelphia Experiment. The Leon was sold as scrap in 1999. Video (no audio) recorded by Michael J. Frangos.

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News & Politics

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• Stylianos
• Pattakos
• Greek
• destroyer
• Leon
• USS
• Eldridge
• Karpathos
• 1970

[grkmuse77]

Pretty cool! I wonder what happened to all our home movie footage... any of that salvageable?

[karpatho]

It's all there. This was on one of the reels. I haven't yet found any movies of you, though.

[grkmuse77]

i think they stopped filming after you guys... It doesn't matter they will be cool to see. I have plenty of stills with me in them. :)