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:

OH YES! Massive Mighty Mo, Bet You Haven’t Seen These Images Before – New York Naval Ship Yard, January 6, 1941

BB-63, the USS Missouri “Mighty Mo” is an Iowa-class United States Navy Battleship, the third that was named in honor of the US state of…

10 futuristic Weapons That Could Change Warfare

Editor’s notice: this has been debunked as one of the urban myths of WWII Warfare has changed beyond recognition due to advancements in technology. Conflicts…

UPDATE: Treasure Hunter Who Spent 40 Years Searching For Nazi Gold Train Reveals its Dark Secrets

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…

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘Full Metal Jacket’

  Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’ is probably, of all Vietnam War movies made, the most influential. It’s an iconic movie with a huge fandom.…

What Was The Most Lethal Tank of WWII?

  What was the most lethal tank used in the Second World War? There are so many views as to the answer on this but…

Unbelievable – Son finds lost D-Day colour footage in father’s attic

The only known Allied colour footage of World War Two was uncovered in the attic of a Hollywood director by his son… When the warship…

8 inventions the US stole from the Germans after WWII

To the victors belong the spoils of war, and after Nazi Germany was defeated there were plenty of spoils that the Allies were after. 1.…

Beautiful images of veterans of the Napoleonic War

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire led by Emperor Napoleon I against an array of European powers…

WOW!!! German Gun Battery in Normandy That Was Put For Sale – check this out! (image heavy)

Are you are interested in owning a piece of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy? A superbly preserved piece of WWII history, an untouched Normandy German…

25 images of tank wrecks of WWII

Images of tanks from Normandy to Russia. History seems to have a fasination with tanks, for the crews it was like being in a tracked…

The man the enemy could not defeat: A giant with a volcanic temper -The only man to be awarded the VC on D-Day

The Second World War revealed over the years the stories of many heroes who gave their lives for their country in acts of boundless courage.…

OH YES! 10 Strangest WWII Unsolved Mysteries #6 Is Freaky, #9 Is Sad

There has been an interesting discussion with regards to the Nazi Gold Train, which was possibly discovered. If the gold train does exist, it could…