Tank Overhaul

Isle of Wight Museum Managing Director Dave Arnold and his team of restorers take on the task of refurbishing a 1944-era World War II British Comet rescued from an army ordnance firing range. Hoping to have it ready for the museum's Tank Fest, they have only 4 months in which to complete their task.

Tank restorer Jacques Littlefield labors to add a rare German Panzerkampfwagen V Panther to his collection of over 300 military vehicles. Recovered from a riverbed in Poland, the badly mangled hulk presents an incredible challenge to his crew of experts, but also offers clues to the events on the fateful day of its destruction back in World War II.

The Isle of Wight team attempts to pull off an unrivaled feat of restoration as they make one good tank out of two destroyed ones by rebuilding the damaged front quarter of a US M4 Sherman and welding on an intact hull section cut from a donor Sherman.

Karl Smith and his military restoration experts at the Tank Workshop race to get a US M18 Hellcat tank destroyer up and running for a VE-Day celebration and surprise reunion with the US veteran who was the tank's crew commander over 60 years ago!