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:

British Sniper Kills SIX Taliban Fighters With a SINGLE Bullet From Half a Mile Away

A Coldstream Guards marksman on one of the last tours of duty carried out by the British in Afghanistan in December 2013 managed to kill…

Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) – fastest piston engine fighter of WW2

Dornier Do 335

During the Second World War, the Dornier company was building a radically different airplane, the Do 335 Pfeil (“Arrow”). Having a unique “push-pull” layout and…

Top 5 Facts About The M1 Garand

The M1 Garand rifle is a 0.30 caliber semi-automatic US rifle designed in 1928 by Canadian-American firearms designer John Garand. It was in service as…

Incredible battlefield relics of the Eastern Front

Germany and Russia both lost much of their territory as a result of World War I, though Russia suffered the most. Russia made peace with…

10 of The Coolest Things Ever Said In War – Being Slightly Understated Here….

Hollywood doesn’t own all of the coolest lines in WWII films. The most profound things, and in many cases, understated comments are made by those…

BREAKING! Two Teams Kick Off Search For Nazi Gold Train Next Week & Discovery Channel Joins Hunt!

Editors note: These are the Gold Train updates up to March 2016 In December 2015, the press conference denounced the claims of a Nazi Gold…

Beautiful & Touching: After Hours At Pearl Harbor Something Incredible Happens

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…

Mutual Assured Destruction – 10 Blood Chilling Things You Need To Know

As a doctrine of national security and military strategy, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) involves the full-scale usage of weapons of mass destruction by at least two opposing…

Sell Your Kidney & Buy This WWII M-18 Hellcat Tank Destroyer Now For Only 275,000 USD

This is one of the most original M-18s in existence, it is very complete, the engine runs well, has good power, good oil pressure and…

Fascinating Abandoned Military Bases From All Around The World

Military bases and installations, built to last only a few years or to support a 1000-year Reich have been left abandoned across the globe. Some…

Father of Arnold Schwarzenegger, served in WWII as part of the ‘Feldgendarmerie’ (military police). He was in Russia during the bitter winter of ’41-’42 where he was wounded in action

Gustav Schwarzenegger is the father of the famous Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California Governor. Gustav was a Police Chief (Gendarmeriekommandant) in Austria, a senior military police…

YES!! Discovered Hidden in a Long-Forgotten Tunnel, Has the Nazi Gold Ghost Train Been Found?

Editors note: These are the Gold Train updates up to March 2016 In December 2015, the press conference denounced the claims of a Nazi Gold…