Collections
The archive, retold by campaign: curated sets of vehicles that fought the same battle, hunted the same prey, or crossed the same desert.
13 collections
The Battle of France, 1940
Six weeks in 1940, in which an army with fewer tanks and lighter ones destroyed the largest land force in Western Europe. · 24 machines
The Battle of Britain
The first battle fought entirely in the air — and the first defeat of the war for Germany. · 11 machines
The Desert War
Three years of advance and retreat across two thousand kilometres of Libya and Egypt — a war of machines, fought in a landscape with nowhere to hide. · 35 machines
The Hunt for the Bismarck
Six days, two thousand miles of ocean, and the largest naval pursuit in history — told here through every machine that took part. · 8 machines
The Eastern Front
The largest land war ever fought — four years, two thousand kilometres of front, and machines built in their tens of thousands to survive it. · 39 machines
Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
The morning that brought America into the war — and missed the ships that would win it. · 13 machines
Midway, June 1942
Five minutes on the morning of 4 June 1942 decided the Pacific war. These are the machines that were there. · 17 machines
Operation Husky: Sicily, 1943
The largest amphibious assault yet mounted — the invasion that carried the war onto Axis home soil and toppled Mussolini within a fortnight. · 30 machines
The Italian Campaign, 1943–1945
From the armistice and Salerno to the surrender in the Alps — the slow, brutal climb up the peninsula, and the only front where Italians fought on both sides. · 37 machines
D-Day and Normandy, Summer 1944
The largest amphibious invasion ever mounted — five beaches, three airborne divisions, and eleven weeks of battle that destroyed a German army. · 32 machines
Leyte Gulf, October 1944
The largest naval battle in history — four engagements in three days, the last sortie of the battleships, and the first organized kamikazes. · 12 machines
The Defence of Japan, 1944–1945
The last campaign of the Pacific war, fought in the skies over the Home Islands — the Superfortress against the interceptor, fire against a nation of wood and paper. · 6 machines
The Fall of Germany, 1944–1945
Hitler’s last gamble in the West, and the five months of fighting that ended the Third Reich — from the snow of the Ardennes to the Rhine and the Elbe. · 24 machines