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:

Awesome Sounds and Jaw-Dropping Visuals as the Mosquito FB26 Does a Low-Level Flyby

The de Havilland Mosquito FB26 is a fast bomber that served in the British Royal Air Force during and after World War II. It was…

Have You Ever Seen Anything Like These Crazy WW2 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…

Glorious Colour pictures of a British WW2 Classic!

The RAF Supermarine Spitfire has got to be one of the most classic planes of WW2. Examples can be seen as static exhibits in museums…

Wounded, He Sacrificed Himself to Clear the way for his Platoon – James Stokes, VC

Private James Stokes’ thirtieth birthday was February 6th, 1945. On the 1st of March, less than one month later, he came to the end of…

Some Survivors Of The Pearl Harbor Attacks Choose To Return There At The End Of Their Lives

The USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship which was built for and by the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. She was named in honor…

The Titanic Battle of WWI Luxury Liners: Fancy Spas and Explosive Shells

It’s hard to imagine a massive cruise ship ever being converted into a naval vessel for war. Think of the largest cruise ships today, complete…

56 Movie Mistakes: The Longest Day

The Longest Day, which was made in black and white, features a large ensemble cast including John Wayne, Kenneth More,Richard Todd, Robert Mitchum, Richard Burton,…

Band of Brothers Behind the Scenes – 39 Fun images!

Band of Brothers is the 2001 HBO American war drama miniseries, it is based on the non-fiction book with the same name by historian Stephen…

Have You Ever Wanted to Talk to a WWI Soldier? Now You Can With This New Chatbot

We are still going through the centennial of WWI, each month there is a new anniversary of a campaign or battle. The Great War was…

The Last Shogun – First Shots of the Boshin War

On the 27th of January, 1868, the army of the Shogunate was marching toward Kyoto. For more than a quarter of a century, the Tokugawa…

Smart, Beautiful, and Deadly, Russian Sniper Roza Shanina Made 54 Confirmed Kills in Less than a Year

In the deep silence of the vast Russian pine forest, a small, lonesome figure was walking. It was just a few years before the outbreak…

LOOK!!! Views down the sights of historical military firearms – very clever

A great project and work from the guys at www.candrsenal.com. They have spent a massive amount of time taking hi-res images of historic firearms. They…