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:

Top 7 German Panzer aces

Kurt Knispel is considered to be the world’s greatest tank ace. The German war hero had 168 confirmed and 195 unconfirmed kills in World War…

Submarine Wrecks from Around the World………..

Submarines, the hunter killer ships we all know from the first and second world war. Or the missile submarines that hide in the deep oceans,…

The Iconic Browning .50 Caliber ‘Meat Chopper’

Watch these US sailors at sea onboard the USS Firebolt, as they undertake live ammo drills. They’re firing extremely powerful 50 caliber machine guns; the…

Collectors, ready to cry? What happens to weapons after war….

It is simultaneously both a collector’s wildest dream and worst nightmare. After the war is over and the smoke has cleared from the battlefield, what…

War wrecks from around the world

Guns of the mighty Bismarck wreck USS Yorktown wreck discovered by Robert Ballard in 1998 USS Kittiwake Two grounded WWI German submarines Two wrecked German…

Roswell was not aliens – it was the Nazis, according to a German documentary

In 1947, a flying saucer crashed-landed near the little town of Roswell, New Mexico. At least, that was what was reported on July 8 of…

33 sad, lonely and tough images from the Vietnam war

War dominated 30 years of Vietnam’s history last century. The struggle that began with communists fighting French colonial power in the 1940s did not end…

Heinz Heydrich, brother of SS General Reinhard Heydrich, helped Jews escape the Holocaust after reading his brother’s files after Reinhard’s death.

Heinz Siegfried Heydrich  was the son of Richard Bruno Heydrich and the younger brother of SS General Reinhard Heydrich. After the death of his brother,…

Did You Know? One of the last SS units to hold out defending Hitler’s bunker in Berlin was comprised entirely of Frenchmen

  The French volunteers of the Second World War constituted an entirely separate division in the Wehrmacht, and after that the Waffen-SS which consisted of…

STUNNING! Inside the B-52 Stratofortress in 52 high-res images

The B-52 bomber has been America’s most well-known, revered, and feared aircraft of the last 60 years and is still going strong. The bomber has…

Grandniece of Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s bloodline. She believes the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.

Katrin Himmler was asked at 15 by a fellow student at her Berlin school during history class if she was any relation to Heinrich Himmler,…

B-29: Phosphorus burned through his flesh to the bone. His body on fire, he stumbled into the cockpit

The most amazing story. Henry Eugene “Red” Erwin, Sr., (May 8, 1921 – January 16, 2002) was a United States Army Air Forces airman and…