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:

31 Images of Rommel & Some You Wouldn’t Have Seen Before?

  Having gained a solid reputation as a military savant of the highest order, Rommel was promoted to Lieutenant General and placed in command of…

“Mad Major” Carpenter Attached 6 Bazookas To His Artillery Spotter Plane And Went Tank Hunting

Charles Carpenter enlisted in the US Army in 1942 commissioned a second lieutenant. After completing flight training, Carpenter flew light observation aircraft and accumulated substantial…

Camouflage Netting: ‘Making’ Factories into Towns – Bet You Haven’t Seen A Lot of These Before?! We Haven’t!

In February 1942 the United States Navy Monitors had been tracking a Japanese submarine lurking on the outskirts of San Francisco. Several nights after this,…

The Horrific Nazi Gas Vans – The Mobile Gas Chambers

The Nazis began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in late 1939 with the killing of mental patients (“euthanasia”). A Nazi…

Nazi Gold Train – Live Updates! The Train Could Be Mined, There Could Be Billions in Gold,

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…

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…

AMAZING: Recovery & Restoration of a German Halftrack SdKfz 8/DB 10 (image heavy)

A Previously Unknown Armored version, based on the famous Sd.Kfz 8 FAMO artillery tractor, was recovered from the Pilica River in Poland. It is believed…

20 Color WWII Photos Look Like They Were Taken Yesterday

We found some amazing color photographs of aircraft in World War II. They were all taken in 1942 and recently released by the Library of…

Tiger`s reputation may be in need of a rewrite

“To a New Yorker like you, a hero is a weird type of sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers.” The line is…

MUST READ – 50 Famous Faces in Uniform during WWII

The death of actor Charles Durning on Christmas Eve brings into focus the wartime service of the ever dwindling ‘greatest generation’.  Here is a list, by…

30 images of the amazing U-Boat pens – Some Images You Wouldn’t Have Seen Before

Early in 1940 the Germans realized the vulnerability of their open top U-Boat enclosures and decided to start building massive bunkers to guard their precious…

8 Convicted Nazi War Criminals Who Got Off Easy

From 20 November 1945 until 1 October 1946 a series of military tribunals, called the Trial of the Major War Criminals, was held by the…