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:

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…

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,…

Just Jugs: Stunning images of P-47’s Thunderbolts. Enjoy!

The Thunderbolt was one of the heaviest and largest fighter planes ever built; it was also only powered by a single piston engine. It was…

Images of the Hetzer pulled from the Gulf of Gdansk in 2007!

The Jadpanzer 38, or Hetzer, was a light tank destroyer produced from 1944 – 1945. 2584 were made, and it was used by Nazi Germany…

Bagpiper Millin: Some Germans who claimed to have seen him didn’t shoot because they believed he was crazy!

Bill Millin, aged 21, was considered to be unarmed on June 6th, 1944 as he jumped from the landing slope in Normandy on Sword Beach.…

Outnumbered Ten To One – Rallying To The Flag Until The End

It was the 27th of July, 1880. In the incredible heat of the high Afghan summer, an army of two and a half thousand men…

Wargaming is the Official Sponsor of the Tank Event Armour & Embarkation

Wargaming today announced they will be the official sponsor of Armour & Embarkation, a historic military vehicle road run taking place in Dorset from June…

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…

Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years

On Thursday, April 21st, Britain celebrates the 90th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. The Queen is  both the oldest and the longest…

Smart and Deadly, Russian Sniper Roza Shanina With 54 Confirmed Kills

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…

‘Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane’ Was A B-17 Gunner In WWII

James Best was an American on-screen character, who is best known for his principle performance as blundering Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the CBS TV…