Pathfinder Jack
Member
Afternoon all,
Hope everyone is well.
Have been speaking with Krela with regards to the below and advised me to go ahead a post the below. This is kind of my intro too!
- It is a long post so make a cup of tea first!
My name is Jack Beckett and I am from Dorset. I own Pathfinder Media Group and under that banner I have the award winning website - www.hmvf.co.uk - Winner - of the Bart Vanderveen award for outstanding contribution to the military vehicle movement - last year my members and I raised over £10,000 for the Normandy Veterans Association to enable many of our veterans to return for the 65th anniversary of D-Day. I also organised Armour & Embarkation www.armourandembarkation.com which was the UK's first tank event - just type Armour and Embarkation into YouTube. It was to commemorate the build up of D-Day here in Dorset and we pulled it off in style with great coverage from around the world and I also own www.pathfinderdistribution.com which we supply the world with reproduced WW2 tents.
My other project, as you may know is www.thepathfindermagazine.com With regards to the magazine I am now taking it online as it gives us more coverage as one of my sites - HMVF has over 1 million visitors a year and we will be dovetailing that in with the magazine so our coverage will explode.
We have contributors from around the, some of them are leading historians, authors and veterans to name a few. Kent Tout OBE will also be writing for us - as you may know, Ken served as an NCO with the 1st Bn Northants Yeomanry during the Second World War, fighting in Sherman tanks and is the author of many books on his experiences during the war. We also have Albert Figg of the infamous Hill 112. Paul Woodage - Battle Bus Tours - Normandy Historian. Michael John Grist - our contributor from Tokyo taking care of battlefields, bases and wrecks from the war in the East And must include Ben - who explores underground ammo dumps here in the UK - one of them being 80 acres underground with its own railway station, cinema, hospital and the whole lot - it was a secret WW2 under ground bunker - of which there are many more which he will be exploring for us.
Furthermore I am speaking with Prof Richard Holmes to join us too.
But there is more – more about the content and the benefits of going over to the online concept. Some of the below will be free.
* · Daily News feeds from around the world
* - Online radio
* · Book and film reviews
* · TV & radio listings relevant to our hobby
* · Interviews with authors, film makers, historians
* · Competitions
* · Blogs from around the world
* · ‘How to’ guides
* · Downloadable battlefield guides
* · Product news
* · Articles
* · In-depth articles about, the Great War and WW2 effort, post war conflicts, the Leaders, weapons and equipment, propaganda, uniforms, battlefields, insignia, war secrets, aircraft, war factories, crash sites, memorials, training grounds, life back in civvy street and the British resistance......
* · Podcasts
* · Video interviews
* · Exclusive deals from traders, ferry companies, retailers, battlefield tour companies, books, DVD’s and much much more
* · Reduce museum entry
* · Journalistic content
* · To record, GPS map and make available all WW1 & WW2 UK airfields and pillboxes
* · Smart phone accessibility
* · Live show reports
* · Upcoming related events
There is a lot more that we can and will do but this gives you a flavour. We can collate and publish some great work from around the world that will be accessible forever. It allows us to have more content from more contributors then we could ever think possible and over the years this will build into a massive resource and will keep current with the hobby. It will become a massive achieve and a lasting legacy.
I HAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE THAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU WITH REGARDS TO THE CONTENT AND CONTRIBUTORS BUT TRYING NOT TO SHOW MY HAND TO SOON AND TILL IT IS ALL DONE.
Pathfinder Online is now the Media Partner of Bovington Tank Museum. So it is all go.
So what am I doing posting here?! Well as you know the membership of the Derelict Places forum is full of skilled and knowledgeable people. And I am looking for further contributors to write for us.
I feel that we tend to (in the ‘printed press’) focus on D-Day and the Normandy campaign and I want to change that by bringing in interesting articles from four corners of the world. So I am looking for contributors/writers who have explolered wartime bunkers here in the UK and further afield - Norway, Russia, Italy, German, Australia and anywhere that has a wartime link - can be an airfield, ammo dump and so on and also from the Cold War.
Articles on airfields, vehicles, battlefields, navy, POW camps, SOE, graves, UXB’s, towns, cities, bunkers, raids, relics, shipwrecks and anything connected to WW2 or WW1. I am also aware that many of us do not have the platform to share our work and many of us want to write and share but have no outlet for it. Then you have a blank canvas here that you can publish your work.
I am very keen on having columnists – may be slightly risky but something I think would be interesting to us all. So if you have a personal opinion or a continuous view point that you are willing to share with the world on the hobby – the good the bad and the ugly - then please do let me know – you would have your own piece within the magazine.
If you would like to know more then please email me – jack @ hmvf.co.uk or PM me and will get straight back to you!
My kind regards, thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Jack.
Hope everyone is well.
Have been speaking with Krela with regards to the below and advised me to go ahead a post the below. This is kind of my intro too!
- It is a long post so make a cup of tea first!
My name is Jack Beckett and I am from Dorset. I own Pathfinder Media Group and under that banner I have the award winning website - www.hmvf.co.uk - Winner - of the Bart Vanderveen award for outstanding contribution to the military vehicle movement - last year my members and I raised over £10,000 for the Normandy Veterans Association to enable many of our veterans to return for the 65th anniversary of D-Day. I also organised Armour & Embarkation www.armourandembarkation.com which was the UK's first tank event - just type Armour and Embarkation into YouTube. It was to commemorate the build up of D-Day here in Dorset and we pulled it off in style with great coverage from around the world and I also own www.pathfinderdistribution.com which we supply the world with reproduced WW2 tents.
My other project, as you may know is www.thepathfindermagazine.com With regards to the magazine I am now taking it online as it gives us more coverage as one of my sites - HMVF has over 1 million visitors a year and we will be dovetailing that in with the magazine so our coverage will explode.
We have contributors from around the, some of them are leading historians, authors and veterans to name a few. Kent Tout OBE will also be writing for us - as you may know, Ken served as an NCO with the 1st Bn Northants Yeomanry during the Second World War, fighting in Sherman tanks and is the author of many books on his experiences during the war. We also have Albert Figg of the infamous Hill 112. Paul Woodage - Battle Bus Tours - Normandy Historian. Michael John Grist - our contributor from Tokyo taking care of battlefields, bases and wrecks from the war in the East And must include Ben - who explores underground ammo dumps here in the UK - one of them being 80 acres underground with its own railway station, cinema, hospital and the whole lot - it was a secret WW2 under ground bunker - of which there are many more which he will be exploring for us.
Furthermore I am speaking with Prof Richard Holmes to join us too.
But there is more – more about the content and the benefits of going over to the online concept. Some of the below will be free.
* · Daily News feeds from around the world
* - Online radio
* · Book and film reviews
* · TV & radio listings relevant to our hobby
* · Interviews with authors, film makers, historians
* · Competitions
* · Blogs from around the world
* · ‘How to’ guides
* · Downloadable battlefield guides
* · Product news
* · Articles
* · In-depth articles about, the Great War and WW2 effort, post war conflicts, the Leaders, weapons and equipment, propaganda, uniforms, battlefields, insignia, war secrets, aircraft, war factories, crash sites, memorials, training grounds, life back in civvy street and the British resistance......
* · Podcasts
* · Video interviews
* · Exclusive deals from traders, ferry companies, retailers, battlefield tour companies, books, DVD’s and much much more
* · Reduce museum entry
* · Journalistic content
* · To record, GPS map and make available all WW1 & WW2 UK airfields and pillboxes
* · Smart phone accessibility
* · Live show reports
* · Upcoming related events
There is a lot more that we can and will do but this gives you a flavour. We can collate and publish some great work from around the world that will be accessible forever. It allows us to have more content from more contributors then we could ever think possible and over the years this will build into a massive resource and will keep current with the hobby. It will become a massive achieve and a lasting legacy.
I HAVE A WHOLE LOT MORE THAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU WITH REGARDS TO THE CONTENT AND CONTRIBUTORS BUT TRYING NOT TO SHOW MY HAND TO SOON AND TILL IT IS ALL DONE.
Pathfinder Online is now the Media Partner of Bovington Tank Museum. So it is all go.
So what am I doing posting here?! Well as you know the membership of the Derelict Places forum is full of skilled and knowledgeable people. And I am looking for further contributors to write for us.
I feel that we tend to (in the ‘printed press’) focus on D-Day and the Normandy campaign and I want to change that by bringing in interesting articles from four corners of the world. So I am looking for contributors/writers who have explolered wartime bunkers here in the UK and further afield - Norway, Russia, Italy, German, Australia and anywhere that has a wartime link - can be an airfield, ammo dump and so on and also from the Cold War.
Articles on airfields, vehicles, battlefields, navy, POW camps, SOE, graves, UXB’s, towns, cities, bunkers, raids, relics, shipwrecks and anything connected to WW2 or WW1. I am also aware that many of us do not have the platform to share our work and many of us want to write and share but have no outlet for it. Then you have a blank canvas here that you can publish your work.
I am very keen on having columnists – may be slightly risky but something I think would be interesting to us all. So if you have a personal opinion or a continuous view point that you are willing to share with the world on the hobby – the good the bad and the ugly - then please do let me know – you would have your own piece within the magazine.
If you would like to know more then please email me – jack @ hmvf.co.uk or PM me and will get straight back to you!
My kind regards, thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Jack.
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