Combat Dealers

Eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Crompton is tasked with creating a display based on the French Resistance - a parachute basket filled with items the RAF would have dropped to the Resistance during the Second World War.

Eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Crompton heads to Ypres in Belgium looking for items from the Great War. He tracks down a German trench mortar and also goes for a ride in a First World War-era British tank - one of the first tanks ever used in combat.

Bruce part en quête de reliques au coeur de la capitale du troisième Reich. Sa chasse va le mener à affronter des négociateurs tenaces. Il va se retrouver nez à nez avec des choses sinistres et même faire parler une des plus terrifiantes armes de l'époque.

Acheteur, restaurateur et revendeur de matériel militaire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Bruce Crompton est un passionné d'Histoire sociale et de recherche historique. Dans cet épisode, Bruce parcours la Normandie à la recherche de pépites en tous genres pour un client Texan très exigeant. Pendant ce temps au en Angleterre, les jumeaux tentent de remettre à neuf un Kettenrad : un très rare hybride moto-tank de la Wechmacht.

Eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Crompton finds a picture in his attic from Dunkirk, given to him by a soldier who was there. He then goes on a hunt for kit that tells the real story of the wartime evacuation.

One of Bruce Crompton's clients wants a half-track armoured personnel carrier converted into a Pioneer variant, as used by the German army during the Battle of the Bulge.

A French museum asks eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Crompton for help in acquiring an incredibly rare German Panzer 1 tank. He also explores the remains of secret underground Nazi war factorie.

Bruce helps a Texan millionaire who wants to collect memorabilia from the Battle of Normandy. He visits farmhouses and museums to find rare items like a 1942 Luger.

Bruce hears about some second world war British airborne division gear from the battle of Arnhem for sale, which is of big interest to ex-paratroopers like him and Freddie.

A Hollywood blockbuster needs an authentic WWII SAS jeep within two weeks. It’s a tight deadline but Bruce is determined to meet it, as the wartime SAS is a passion of his.

Bruce heads to a cold war underground bunker that has been converted to a museum. The curator is looking for some Soviet era equipment to tell the other side of the story.

A Russian client seeks artefacts from the fall of Berlin. Bruce Crompton sees an opportunity to offload a German 88mm anti-tank weapon that was used in the battle.