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:

LOOK!!! Views down the sights of historical military firearms – very clever

A great project and work from the guys at www.candrsenal.com. They have spent a massive amount of time taking hi res images of historic firearms.…

Medal of Honor: Real life Capt America in fight to the death with his bare hands against 5 enemy soldiers – he won

David Bruce Bleak was born on 27 February 1932 to William Bleak and Tamar Bleak (née Young) in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a remote farming community.…

The Most Produced Warbirds of WWII

Manufacturers in World War II were engaged in the greatest industrial effort in history. Aircraft companies went from building a handful of planes at a…

Repelled 30 Taliban: 400 Rounds, Launched 17 Grenades, Detonated a Mine, and Used His Tripod as a Weapon

Acting Sergeant Dipprasad Pun of the Royal Gurkha Rifles was the lone guard on duty, patrolling a small two-story outpost on the edge of Helmand…

German actor Hardy Krüger fought for the SS in WWII.

Hardy Krüger was born in Wedding, Berlin, Germany in 1928. Known for his acting, having appeared in films with Richard Attenborough, Richard Burton, Ryan O’neal…

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…

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…

JFK: 11 alive…need small boat…Kennedy

On a dark night in August of 1943, young Jack Kennedy is cruising silently through the waters of the South Pacific near the Solomon Islands…

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…

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…

Lend lease Sherman pulled from a Russian bog

In February 1944 a lend-leased M4A2 Sherman tank was ambushed by German anti-tank  gun when it was on the ice of the swampy Gniloy Tikich…