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:

Did YOU Know?? There Was an Armed Interceptor Version of the SR-71 called the YF-12. It Was the largest Manned Interceptor Ever Made

The Lockheed YF-12 was an American prototype interceptor aircraft evaluated by the United States Air Force. The YF-12 was a twin-seat version of the secret…

The Executioner in the Infamous Vietcong photo opened a Pizzeria in Suburban Virginia After the Vietnam War

Nguyen Ngoc Loan (December 11th, 1930 – July 14th, 1998) was the chief of National Police in South Vietnam. Loan attracted worldwide attention following his…

29 Images of the Monsters of the Seas – They Really Are MASSIVE!

    Nothing in was is ever as big as the might battleships from the Dreadnoughts up to WWII – these monsters roamed the seas…

‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so Historically Inaccurate, That President Eisenhower Came Out of Retirement & Held a Press Conference Just to Denounce the Film.

‘Battle of the Bulge’ is an American classic war movie, it was made in Spain and hit the screens in 1965. It was directed by…

32 sad, tragic but fascinating colorised images of WWII

Many thanks go to Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation.  The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows you…

WWI: Romania Shipped 120 Tons ($1.25 billion) of Gold to Russia for Safe Keeping, As of 2014, They Have Returned Just 33 kg of It!

The Romanian Treasure that was sent to Russia for safekeeping during World War I is a collection of the Romanian government that is comprised of…

The Amazing Flying Wing – Images You Haven’t Seen Before?!

The flight test community experienced a major loss with the loss of the Northrop YB-49 some 67 years ago. The jet-powered flying wing broke apart…

10 Things You Never Knew About The P-38 Lightning??

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II American fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive…

The wreck of thee DUKW sunk in Italy will be recovered – could hold the remains of 24 soldiers

The DUKW was an amphibious vehicle used by American forces in World War II. Near the end of the war, one of them sunk in…

Black Hawk Down: The amazing & sad story of the MoH recipients – the 1st since the Vietnam war.

Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions. Medal of Honor citation Citation: Sergeant First Class Shughart,…

Low Flying B-17 From ‘The War Lover’ Movie – This Is Some Crazy Flying (Watch)

This video shows several low passes by a B-17 at RAF Bovingdon in England; it’s a clip from the movie “The War Lover.” The War…

They Tried to Copy The RAF Mosquito, They Failed – The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito

The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito was a fast twin-engined German night fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf during late World War…