Heziel Pitogo

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

Articles by Heziel Pitogo:

WWI Onslaught Captured in Joe Sacco’s 24-Foot Artwork

Maltese-American journalist Joe Sacco’s most recent work is not a comprehensive article or a thousand pages long graphic novel;  it is a panoramic illustration 24…

WWII Polish Leader Wladyslaw Sikorski’s Death Void of Foul Play – Inquest

Warsaw, Poland – A five-year Polish investigation into the unexpected death of WWII Polish leader Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski in 1943 through a plane crash yielded no evidences…

“Death Railway”: British POW Recalls Burma Railway Story

Aside from the classic British-American film in 1957, Bridge on the River Kwai, the struggles prisoners of war endured in Burma and the making of the “death…

Sylvia Salmon (1922-2013): WWII Servicewoman Asked Ashes to be Scattered Over RAF Duxford

Sylvia Salmon was among the first members of the Womens’ Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) and spent some of her best years as a servicewoman in WWII…

Movie Shows Hitler as Evil Kung Fu Master

Hitler…a Kung Fu master? Well, everything is possible and this upcoming movie attests to that. The feared German dictator during the Second World War will…

Former Head of M15 – “My Mother’s Pigeons Saved Lives in WWII”

Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, who became head of M15 from 2002 to 2007, is set to tell the story of how her mother trained pigeons…

Bitter Story of Bitter Times: Holocaust Survivor Recalls Winter Months in Nazi Camps

February, 1945 – It would have been the perfect time for 13-year-old Ivor Perl’s bar mitzvah but instead the barely in his teens lad stood under…

Civil War Ship USS Westfield Recovered from Houston Ship Channel

A 150-year-old Civil War ship was recovered from the Houston Ship Channel’s bottom and restored in a five-year project that yielded countless artifacts dating way…

Veterans Get Support to Attend Operation Market Garden’s 70th Anniversary

Lloyds staff, Church green East branch, are working at raising £10,000 to send at least 70 WWII veterans of the Parachute Regimental Association’s Redditch branch together with…

Life for a Life: Trees to Honor Civil War Deaths

The goal: One tree for every Civil War soldier who died in action… Leesburg, Virginia – The suburban stretch, one hour drive going south of…

Judge Ruled Out, Mount Soledad Cross to be Removed

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns has ordered last December 12 for the removal of the Mount Soledad Cross atop a Southern California mountain saying it…

Battle of the Bulge Christmas in the Eyes of a WWII Vet

“Christmas never comes around that I don’t think of the Battle of the Bulge.”  Sergeant Malcolm “Buck” Marsh Jr. spent Christmas this year surrounded by…