Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A 1940 ya sami horo a kan yakin basasa, kuma a lokacin
Ya yi aiki a cikin jirgin ruwa na jirgin ruwa, yana yin sintiri don hana jirgin ruwan Italiya a cikin Tekun Adriatic. A ranar 31 ga Disamba 1940 an daukaka shi zuwa laftanan. A watan Maris na 1941 ya sami Gicciye na Yaƙi don hidimarsa a matsayin jami'i a cikin jirgin ruwa mai suna "Nirefs". A watan Afrilun 1941, yayin da mamayewar Jamus ta Girka ta kusan mamaye ƙasar, an tura yawancin jiragen ruwan Girka da za a iya ceto zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya da ke hannun Allies. Ko da yake kawai mai kula da shi, Engolfopoulos ya karbi umurnin "Nirefs" kuma ya jagoranci jirginsa zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya, inda ya shiga sojojin gwamnatin Girka a gudun hijira. Don wannan yunƙurin ya sami Gicciye na Yaƙi na biyu a ranar 14 ga Satumba, 1944. Daga nan ya yi aiki a matsayin jami'in zartarwa a cikin jirgin ruwa mai suna "Pindos", wanda ya shiga cikin Yaƙin Bahar Rum da kuma mamayewar Allied na Sicily (Yuli 1943) da mamayewar kudancin Faransa ("Operation Dragoon", Agusta 1944). Ya dauki kansa umurnin mai hallaka a wani lokaci a 1944. A lokacin tawayen sojan ruwa na kwaminisanci na watan Afrilu na shekarar 1944, ya shiga cikin rukunin da ke shiga jirgi wanda ya kwace iko da jiragen ruwa da karfi kuma ya dakile tawayen.