Jack Beckett

Jack Beckett has been editor since 2012. Huge fan of war history and rural history and a motorbike rider.

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Articles by Jack Beckett:

Did You Know? Poland’s Boy Scouting Association formed a resistance army in WWII & fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials & liberated a concentration camp

Gray Ranks” was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association during World War II. The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted…

Didn’t Know This: giving the Nazi salute in modern day Germany is punishable for up to 3 yrs in prison.

The Nazi salute or Hitler salute (German: Hitlergruß – literally Hitler Greeting) is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany. The…

MUST SEE: 21 Amazing Aerial Shots Of Bombed Out Berlin Shortly After The War…..

Following the end of World War II, photographer Hein Gorny took spectacular aerial shots of the ravaged German capital. These were the first, if not…

He Managed to Convey the Truth by Blinking “TORTURE” in Morse Code During the Vietnam War

  Prisoner Of War Jeremiah Denton, who survived 7 years locked in a tiny windowless cell in Hanoi during the Vietnam war, has passed away…

Saved his Men: Picked up the Grenade & Ran Towards the Enemy Killing Them & Him in the Explosion – he was a Dog

Gander was a Newfoundland dog who was originally a family pet named Pal. When Pal accidentally scratched a child’s face, the owner was concerned that…

UNBELIEVABLE! US Pillot James Risner Using the Nose of His Own Jet Successfully “pushed” his Wingman’s Incapacitated Jet Fighter into Friendly Territory

WWII, Korean and Vietnam war veteran and was a prisoner at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. James Robinson “Robbie” Risner (January 16, 1925 – October 22,…

37 Images Of The Massive German Flak Towers, Armed To The Teeth And Could Shelter Thousands

Following the raid on Berlin by the Royal Air Force in 1940, the construction of 3 huge flak towers was ordered by Adolf Hitler. These…

Fantastic WWII Pictures of the B-24 Witchcraft Throughout Her Career

The B-24 Liberator was, together with the B-17, the workhorse of the United States Army Airforces who used it in every theater of operations. It…

Gold Train Plot Twist – Real Images of the Train not Unearthed…….

Well, we know it isn’t April 1st – April Fools Day. But these images ‘are’ of the of the lost train in Poland that is…

Put up such a fight in captivity, Viet Cong executed him out of frustration. He was last heard singing “God Bless America”

Captain Humbert Roque Versace (July 2, 1937 – September 26, 1965), affectionately called “Rocky,” was an officer of the United States Army. He went on…

Survived Nazi Dr Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anaesthesia & survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people

An Israeli man, Yitzchak Ganon, had his life saved by heart specialists after refusing to visit medical professionals for a total of 64 years. While…

Nazis developed experimental drug cocktail in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) without resting

Modern research has found that the Nazis had plans to try to transform their own soldiers into ‘robots’ using special chemicals. That chemical was a…