Drakos was mild-mannered and enthusiastic to learn about military operations, as well as being devoutly religious, and EOKA commander Georgios Grivas "Dighenis" quickly took a liking to him.

On 1 April 1955, considered to be the first day of the struggle, Drakos and his "Astrape" ("Lightning") team blew up the radio station at Athalassa, destroying it completely.

[1] On 30 June 1955 Drakos was arrested by the British with 14 other EOKA members and imprisoned in Kyrenia Castle but managed to escape 3 months later, by tying blankets together and abseiling out of the windows.

On the night of 18 January 1957, British forces attacked Drakos and his men at their hideout in the Solea Valley.

Drakos was killed and his body recovered and interred by the British in the Imprisoned Graves in the Central Jail of Nicosia.