This is the first volume of an amazing collective work of editorial and artistic excellence, packed in 330 pages, in a 30 X 21,5 cm format. The first volume was released in Summer of 2014 by the three authors: Demetrios Vassilopoulos, Kyriakos Paloulian and George Chalkiadopoulos. Teamed with them were Bernard Brown (widely known as Gaetan Marie, from France) and Antonis Karydis, a Greek, also well known aviation artist, both made the splendid colour profiles and paintings/digital art depictions. One of the authors, D.Vassilopoulos undertook also the task of art direction & lay out of the book and the result is easily read and artistically perfect. The subject and the title of this publication were widely known from past articles written by Kyriakos Paloulian in aviation magazines. Readers huge response and interest made the three authors to decide about creating a book together, which was completed after extensive research - not a compilation of those articles.Ten chapters in total deal with the war biographies & operational action of the following pilots: 1. FRANK "FREE GREEK" ZAVAKOS 2. NICHOLAS D. SINTETOS 3. SPIROS "THE FLYING GREEK"- STEVE PISANOS 4. ROBERT "SMOKEY" VRILAKAS 5. ARTHUR "ELMER" SUGAS 6. HARRY "GREEK" CORONIOS 7. ATLEE "MAD PAPPY" MANTHOS 8. PHILIP SAVIDES 9. JOHN LOLOS 10.SPIROS "SPIKE" KARAVEDAS Text is accompanied by 435 images, 48 color profiles, 11 digital paintings, 4 oil paintings and explanatory tables of confirmed missions/victories-kills (complete with date, aircraft types, flight hours, etc.) for each pilot. Large explanatory captions also accompany all side views/profiles and art paintings. Some of the profiles depict enemy aircraft types. Text is in Greek and captions are bilingual (english/greek) “Greeks in Foreign cockpits” is an admirable work of collective authorship. Narration fully absorbs the reader and features interesting historical events which unfold unknown scenes of air war drama. The authors collected information -after great effort- from pilot log books, Squadron flight records, witness statements recordings and many other sources, difficult to find and access after so many decades. Photographic material revealed is important and worthwhile, for the Aviation History fan and the modeler wishing to access such rare to find photos and other details. Paper, printing & sewn binding are all of excellent quality, in a kind of book that will endure time and bring hours of absorbing reading. Fans of P-47D Thunderbolt (depicted on the front cover) should not miss this book, as most USAAF Greek descent pilots flew with the “Jug”, as of course many other flew the P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, P-40 and other aircraft types. A scale modeler will find many interesting subjects for future projects! In their preface, Dimitris Vogiatzis, Historian of the Hellenic Air Force Museum and the authors, highlight the fact that the contribution of Greek aviators in USAAF Fighting Squadrons have not been officially acknowledged and honored by the Greek State and this makes this book even more commendable and worth reading. In the back cover of Volume One we read this brief note by the authors: “The Story of Hellenic Air Force during WW2 is not widely known to the public, compared to the relevant achievements of Hellenic Army and Hellenic Navy. But the stories of hundreds of Greek descent fighter pilots in USAAF & RAF service remain practically unknown, with notably rare exceptions. For the first time in greek bibliography this book features the operational actions of ten fighter pilots, who honored, not only the nation which they were born, but also the nation of their fathers and ancestors, having full conscience of their greek origin. The authors aspire that this book is just a beginning and the reason for all these pilots to be officially listed, acknowledged, honored and finally being placed where they belong, among other glorious heroes in modern Greek History. Their wish is the life of those men to inspire the next generations and particularly the currently enlisted aircrew and future pilots of Hellenic Air Force”.