Georgios Koumanakos

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Georgios Koumanakos
Greek Expeditionary Force in Korea
Battles/wars	World War II Greco-Italian War Battle of Greece PYRKAL weapons industry member of World Peace Council

Georgios Koumanakos (Greek: Γεώργιος Κουμανάκος, 1913 – 2003) was a Greek Army officer and peace activist.

Born in

, he was retired from the army and sent for three years into internal exile by the military regime.

After the junta's fall in 1974, he became chairman of the state-run

weapons industry.

In the 1980s, he was a well-known activist for nuclear disarmament and the withdrawal of US bases from Greece; along with 7 other high-ranking generals from NATO countries (including Marshal Francisco da Costa Gomes and Brigadier Michael Harbottle) he co-signed the Generals for Peace and Disarmament initiative in 1981, and became a member of the Soviet-sponsored World Peace Council.

External links

• Heroes of the Korean War: Lieutenant Colonel George Koumanakos
• General Georgios Koumanakos Awards and Citations
• The historical accounts of the Greek expeditionary battalion during the Korean War Archived 2020-12-29 at the Wayback Machine