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:

Mosquito: The Best Warbird of WWII – in Color. The Test Pilot is as Cool as All Test Pilots Are…

Undoubtedly the best aircraft of its time. Many will, of course, argue the point, and that’s understandable, we all have our favourites, but the De Havilland…

You Think You Know Your Uniforms – Check to See if You Do! 50 Amazing Images of WWII Uniforms

A Military uniform is the standardized dress worn by members of the armed forces and paramilitaries of various nations. Military dress and military styles have…

Did You Know? Poland’s Boy Scouting Association formed a resistance army in WWII & fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials & liberated a concentration camp

Gray Ranks” was a codename for the underground paramilitary Polish Scouting Association during World War II. The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted…

Operating ball turret in the Collings B-24J at Bomber Camp

Operating ball turret

One of the coolest things ever!  The crew chief on the B-24 and a great guy, installed his Gopro camera on the end of the 50…

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…

He Managed to Convey the Truth by Blinking “TORTURE” in Morse Code During the Vietnam War

  Prisoner Of War Jeremiah Denton, who survived 7 years locked in a tiny windowless cell in Hanoi during the Vietnam war, has passed away…

Saved his Men: Picked up the Grenade & Ran Towards the Enemy Killing Them & Him in the Explosion – he was a Dog

Gander was a Newfoundland dog who was originally a family pet named Pal. When Pal accidentally scratched a child’s face, the owner was concerned that…

UNBELIEVABLE! US Pillot James Risner Using the Nose of His Own Jet Successfully “pushed” his Wingman’s Incapacitated Jet Fighter into Friendly Territory

WWII, Korean and Vietnam war veteran and was a prisoner at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. James Robinson “Robbie” Risner (January 16, 1925 – October 22,…

Four Jumps For Freedom: The Duke Boswell Story – Needs YOU!

Henry “Duke” Boswell was tired of life in the North Carolina cotton fields, so he forged his parents’ signatures and joined the Army at 17.…

COME ON!! Want to Own a Warbird from WWII, Vietnam or the Gulf War? Take your pick…

What happens to military aircraft when they’re retired? Some go to the scrap heap. Others become exhibits in museums. Some become civic monuments. But a…

Victoria Cross: He Sucked the Bullet Out of His Wound & Carried On to Storm a German Dugout & Capture 75 Men

At the turn of the 20th century, Canada did not have much in the way of an army. The joke was that only its parliament…

Gold Train Plot Twist – Real Images of the Train not Unearthed…….

Well, we know it isn’t April 1st – April Fools Day. But these images ‘are’ of the of the lost train in Poland that is…