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 AT THESE!! Mind blowing colourised 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…

War-torn Warbirds: Haunting Images of B-24 Liberators

The B-24 Liberator was, together with the B-17, the workhorse of the United States Army Airforces who used it in every theater of operations. It…

MIND BLOWING: An abandoned WW1 underground hospital – Carriere Suzanne

An abandoned WW1 underground hospital established into a giant limestone quarry. Check out these amazing images taken by the guys over at 442urbex and all images by Marc…

A rough guide of the costs of guns during WWII

We know that millions of weapons were made during WWII – but do we know the cost of their production? This isn’t a bulletproof guide,…

AMAZING! The wreckage riders, those who stayed with the wreckage of their destroyed aircraft & survived!!

What do you think your odds of surviving are if you are shot down at 24,000 feet? If you said slim to none, you’d be…

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…

Ready to cry? 46 WWII tank wrecks from around the world

The guys over there started an interesting thread of tanks wrecks. Many of them are to be found on military ranges and sadly used for…

The enemy have us surrounded!”, “they won’t get away this time!! Chesty Puller, American hero

  They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can’t…

Seriously – some of the best images we have seen of 109’s. So here are 29 109’s :-)

If you look at Aviation history then you will see that the 109 was one of the best planes of all time. It even rivaled…

WOW! MASSIVE collection of Tiger 1 parts for sale – check this out!

Not something you see everyday. There are only 7 tigers in the world, don’t miss chance to obtain 8th. The Tiger is of course legendary…

A ton of pictures from behind the scenes of the Fury film set

  Some of us have seen the film. Some of you guys were in it.  Some of us liked it and some of us hated…

Inside Microsoft Mogul Paul Allen’s Multi-Million Dollar WWII Airplane Collection

Tom from the USA is a a fan of WHO and has sent us some images he took of the Paul Allen’s warbird collection. Allen…