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:

Greatest Mysteries of WWII – Nazi Germany’s Top Secret Weapons

Towards the end of World War II, Nazi scientists and engineers were working on a number of destructive and innovative devices. The Germans were losing…

The Biggest War Machines Ever Built – Mighty Monsters of the Seas…Check Out the Size of the Guns Too!

From the Dreadnoughts to the battleships of WWII – naval power ruled the waves. Amazing designs and revolutions were abound and you can see this…

Iconic Colourised Images of Operation Market Garden

The Battle of Arnhem, Nijmegen and Eindhoven (Operation Market Garden) 17–25 September 1944. On Sunday 17 September, 500 gliders and 1,500 aircraft flew over the…

‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so Historically Inaccurate, That President Eisenhower Came Out of Retirement & Held a Press Conference Just to Denounce the Film.

‘Battle of the Bulge’ is an American classic war movie, it was made in Spain and hit the screens in 1965. It was directed by…

WWI: Romania Shipped 120 Tons ($1.25 billion) of Gold to Russia for Safe Keeping, As of 2014, They Have Returned Just 33 kg of It!

The Romanian Treasure that was sent to Russia for safekeeping during World War I is a collection of the Romanian government that is comprised of…

The Amazing Flying Wing – Images You Haven’t Seen Before?!

The flight test community experienced a major loss with the loss of the Northrop YB-49 some 67 years ago. The jet-powered flying wing broke apart…

Ticking Time Bomb? The Mines At Messines -Over 1 Million Tons of Explosives-, 20 Detonated, 5 Remain, Waiting…

In 1917, the world was engulfed in war. For the first time, the economics of industry had been applied to warfare on a huge scale.…

Of Course, We Knew this…Nazi Secret Inventions, The Jetpack….

The story of the jetpack began sometime in the 1920s, when sci-fi literature and comic books became popular. At that time, commercial flight was virtually…

They Tried to Copy The RAF Mosquito, They Failed – The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito

The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito was a fast twin-engined German night fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf during late World War…

WHAT?!! ‘Phantom Ghost Fortress’ B-17 That Landed at an Airfield – NO Crew Were on Board!!

A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…

Last Dogfight of WWII in Europe Was Between Two Spotter Planes, Firing Pistols at Each Other. The German Aircraft Was Destroyed

The final dogfight of World War II may be the most unusual of all the air-to-air combat missions in the entire war. On April 12,…

WHAT?!! ‘Phantom Ghost Fortress’ B-17 That Landed at an Airfield – NO Crew Were on Board!!

A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…