Seventy-five years after his war service, Sperie Perakos 38 wins the Legion of Honor.
Brita Belli
Sperie Perkaos ’38 at his home in Connecticut last year. View full image
Sperie Perakos ’38 will receive France’s highest recognition, the Legion of Honor, on October 29 at his home in Connecticut. The award will recognize Perakos’s actions on the battlefields of France during World War II.
Perakos enlisted in the US Army in 1941, several months before Pearl Harbor. As a captain in military intelligence for the 448th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, attached to the 35th Infantry Division, he fought in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, helping the Allies push their way east toward Berlin after the D-Day landings. One of five Perakos brothers to serve during the war, he earned the Bronze Star in 1944.