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:

WHAT?!! ‘Phantom Ghost Fortress’ B-17 That Landed at an Airfield – NO Crew Were on Board!!

A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…

UPDATE… THREE Yes THREE ‘Nazi Gold Trains’ Suspected in To Be Found in The Tunnels….!

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…

Last Dogfight of WWII in Europe Was Between Two Spotter Planes,Firing Pistols at Each Other. The German Aircraft Was Destroyed

The final dogfight of World War II may be the most unusual of all the air-to-air combat missions in the entire war. On April 12,…

WHAT?!! ‘Phantom Ghost Fortress’ B-17 That Landed at an Airfield – NO Crew Were on Board!!

A B-17 Flying Fortress landed perfectly at an RAF airbase and completes the full landing pattern as well. The bomber comes to a full stop;…

2012: Syrian army claimed to have found a cache of 5,000 STG-44 rifles (video)

These rifles look in mint condition and will absolutely blow your mind. The video below shows members of the Free Syrian Army who are fighting…

Normandy as you have never seen it before. Drone images of iconic locations

Some amazing images taken by a drone. Whilst in the Normandy for the 71st anniversary of D-Day the World War II Foundation used a drone…

Top Vietnam War Movies – have you seen them all?

1. Apocalypse Now (1979) Apocalypse now is the Vietnam dramatization of Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. This is the story of American Army Captain…

5 Little-Known Facts About the AK-47 and Its Designer

What do you know about the most widely used gun in the world? In a tale of historic irony, the Russian soldier who invented the…

AMAZING FIND: WWII German bunker – a real time capsule

A German bunker built in 1943 during the German occupation was uncovered in Arcachon Basin (Gironde, France) on past 15th May, 2015 by the Archaeological…

Hoax!! Mary Brown Was Chosen to Donate Her Hair to Become the Crosshairs on Norden Bombsights

Editor’s notice: this has been debunked as one of the urban myths of WWII Before the time of computers and lasers, or even radar, aerial…

The Forgotten War – Colourised. New Page From The Masters of Colourisation…..

  Brand new project by  Doug Banks and his team – the masters of colourisation.  The beauty of these colourised images is that colour, allows…

The History of Dog Tags – How Old Do You Think The Idea Is…?!

“Dog tags” is the informal term for the identification tags worn by military personnel, because of their resemblance to actual dog tags. The tags are…