Combat Machines

Throughout WWI, technology progressed, from aerial photography to the first tank, to create the first mechanized war.

The Desert Rats, a military unit, uses machines to fight the Axis forces in the North African desert campaign of World War II.

The story of a World War II American GI and his Harley Davidson motorcycle.

During World War II, Royal Engineers drive and maintain converted tanks to create bridges and clear minefields.

Machines are used to capture, transmit and analyze combat information; stories of SOE agents and their equipment, spies stealing blueprints from the Royal Navy and a submarine mission.

In 1961, Soviet T-54 tanks and American M-48 Patton tanks face off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.