Heziel Pitogo

Heziel Pitogo is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Heziel Pitogo:

Search for Bud Kelder: Body of WWII POW Exhumed Due to Lawsuit

The unknown body of a WWII POW buried in an American war cemetery in the Philippines is to be exhumed after family, who claims the…

Black WWI Hero Henry Johnson, A Step Closer to Being Awarded the Medal of Honor

Almost a hundred years from the time he single-handedly battled German enemies to save a fellow serviceman all the while sustaining serious wounds, the black WWI soldier…

Royal Mint Remembers WWI Nurse Edith Cavell Through £5 Coin

  The Royal Mint honors Edith Cavell, the British nurse executed by the Germans during the Great War for helping Allied soldiers escape to the Netherlands, through…

Louis Zamperini: The Real Man Behind Hollywood’s ‘Unbroken’

Louis Zamperini – the Second World War hero behind Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken.  Louis Zamperini had been a rebel who rose to become an Olympian. He was…

Trailer for ‘Unbroken’, Angelina Jolie’s WWII Film, Released

  Angelina Jolie’s WWII war film Unbrokenreleased its official trailer Thursday, about a week after the passing of Olympian, WWII vet and the story’s hero, Louis…

China Releases Confessions of WWII Japanese War Criminals Online

China’s State Archives Administration began to release alleged confessions of Japanese war criminals who committed war crimes during the Second World War last July 4…

The Perfect Aryan Baby Hailed in WWII was Jewish

80-year-old Hessy Taft spoke of how she, at six months old, was chosen by the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself as the ‘perfect Aryan baby’ with…

Dundee: WWI Time Capsule Sealed in 1921 to be Opened

A Great War time capsule put together by Dundee postal workers is set to be opened early in August this year. The said time capsule…

Good bye, WWII Vet and Actor Bob Hastings! (1925-2014)

Best known for his role as the clumsy Lt. Elroy Carpenter in the 1960s TV sitcom McHale’s Navy, actor and real WWII vet Bob Hastings – born…

Military Historians Desperate to Trace Relatives of Vietnam War Hero Robert Buchan

Military historians are desperate to trace the relatives of Lance Corporal Robert Buchan, who served during the Vietnam War so that they could add his…

WWII Warship USS Slater Returns to Albany After Restoration Works in Staten Island

WWII warship USS Slater headed up Hudson River to Albany after it went through a series of repairs in Staten Island late last month. USS…

12 Little Known Facts about WWI

The Great War may have fascinated us with its bloody bloodbaths and trench warfare but these 12 little known facts about tell us that there was…