claim: Charles de Gaulle was Prime Minister of the Fifth French Republic.
evidence: Miltiadis Iatridis -LRB- Μιλτιαδης Ιατριδης 1906 -- 1960 -RRB- was a Greek naval officer active during World War II .. Greek. Greeks. naval. Hellenic Navy. World War II. World War II. He was born in the village Sofiko in the Peloponnese .. Sofiko. Sofiko, Corinthia. Peloponnese. Peloponnese. He entered the Hellenic Naval Academy in 1921 and graduated in 1926 .. Hellenic Naval Academy. Hellenic Naval Academy. By the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in 1940 he was captain of the submarine Papanikolis with the rank of Lieutenant Commander .. Greco-Italian War. Greco-Italian War. Carrying out six wartime patrols in the Adriatic Sea , the Papanikolis sunk two Italian cargo vessels , earning Iatridis a promotion to Commander and the Gold Cross of Valour , Greece 's highest award for gallantry .. Greece. Greece. Gold Cross of Valour. Cross of Valour ( Greece ). Adriatic Sea. Adriatic Sea. Following the German invasion , Iatridis led the Papanikolis to Allied-controlled Egypt .. German invasion. Battle of Greece. Egypt. Egypt. For the remainder of the war , he was assigned mostly shore duties , largely because of his often strained relationship with superiors .. Following the liberation of Greece in October 1944 , he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Aegean fleet -LRB- 1944 -- 1945 -RRB- , subsequently commander of the North Aegean squadron -LRB- 1947 -RRB- and of the Naval Academy -LRB- 1948 -RRB- .. Greece. Greece. In 1950-1951 , he headed the mission that was sent to Italy to receive the former Italian cruiser Eugenio di Savoia , that was to be handed over to Greece as war reparations and was commissioned into the Greek Navy as Elli II .. Greece. Greece. Greek. Greeks. war reparations. war reparations. He resigned from the service on 29 December 1952 with the rank of Captain .. Iatridis was killed at Agioi Theodoroi in a car accident in 1960 .. Agioi Theodoroi. Agioi Theodoroi. The city of Pyrgos , the birthplace of his father , named a square after Cpt .. Pyrgos. Pyrgos, Elis. Iatridis , where his bust was later erected .. Category  :1906 births. Category  :1960 deaths. Category  : Hellenic Navy officers. Hellenic Navy. Hellenic Navy. Category  : Greek military personnel of World War II. Greek. Greeks. World War II. World War II. Category  : People from Corinthia. Category  : Road incident deaths in Greece. Greece. Greece. Category  : Recipients of the Cross of Valour -LRB- Greece -RRB-. Greece. Greece. Category  : Submarine commanders