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:

20 images of Lancaster bombers – seen these?

One of the most iconic planes of the Second World War, the Avro Lancaster. Britains premier four-engined heavy bomber of which over 7,000 were built.…

Battlefield finds of the SS-Nord Division

The SS Division “Nord” was a German army unit of the Waffen-SS. It was formed as SS-Kampfgruppe “Nord” in February 1941 in Norway but it…

AMAZING IMAGES: The sinking and raising of U-Boat 110 – rare glimpse inside a WWI U-boat

The twin-screw German submarine U.B. 110 was built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. Information of the loss of a U-boat came from a neutral ship…

Most truly inaccurate war films to hit the big screen

When sitting down to watch war movies, most audiences expect that the accounts are as true to what actually happened as possible, especially since they…

55 quotes from Band of Brothers – hey Frank, this guy says the Germans are bad…..!!

Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be…

MUST SEE!! Dug up on a WWII battlefield – you won’t believe what they found inside

Russian volunteers who go out and metal detect on WWII battlefields. This is one of the cooler finds but they have found hundreds of weapons,…

KELLY’S HEROES – the best quotes EVER! We know this is going to make you smile!!!!

You only have to mention the film ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ and within seconds everyone is firing off quotes from the film – our non WWII friends…

The beautiful Spitfire – in COLOUR!!!

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Alliedcountries during and after the…

10 insanely advanced German weapons of WWII – some you wouldn’t have heard of before!!!!

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…

Last-Gasp Jet Fighter Heinkel He 162

 Partially completed Heinkel He-162 fighter jets sit on the assembly line in the underground factory at either Tarthun, Germany, or Hinterbrühl, Austria. This factory was…

Haven’t seen 99% of these before. 34 great colour images of warbirds!

Millions of poignant black-and-white photos have come out of the World War Two era, but it is not often that scenes from the deadliest conflict…

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…