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:

Your Country Needs You – The Watery Grave Of Lord Horatio Kitchener

One of the most iconic images from the great war of 1914-18 is the recruitment poster featuring the commanding moustachioed face of the Lord Horatio…

5 Unbelievable True Stories About WWII That Should be Made into Movies

What most of us remember about World War II from history classes boils down to who fought who, the Holocaust, the Nazis and how almost…

Just Jugs: Just stunning images of P-47’s. 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 – Glorious defeat at the battle of Maiwand

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…

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…

Why The US Dumped Helicopters Overboard During the Vietnam War

Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation on record, begins removing the last Americans from Saigon. The North Vietnamese had launched their final offensive in…

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Rome’s greatest defeat

Varus was crushed. His feet and hands and mind were numb with the freezing rain. His legions, so splendid and untouchable only days before, were…

“HAMMERING HANK” takes on 22 planes by himself over Wake Island, then leads infantry in a desperate last stand.

Henry Talmage “Hammerin’ Hank” Elrod (September 27, 1905–December 23, 1941) was a US Marine Corps aviator. He was the first aviator to receive the Medal…

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;…

Medal of Honor – Nominated 4 Times: Survived a Nazi concentration camp, Took on the Korean Army with a .30 Cal and…

Tibor Rubin, who was of Jewish descent, was captured by the Nazis during World War Two and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Luckily, he…