Tank Overhaul - Episode 7 - The Elephant

Tank Overhaul invites you into a world where military enthusiasts, collectors, and restorers combine their know-how with 21st Century technology to restore the greatest battle tanks of all time. From the original salvage, to the rebuilding process, to the history behind the innovations that made each machine great, watch as tanks worldwide are rebuilt to their former glory.

One of the largest and heaviest tank destroyers ever built, the Elephant was brilliant on paper, and terrifying to behold. But, in 1943, the Germans sent it into battle without ever having tested it. Under fire, the massive monster turned out to be a sitting duck for courageous Soviet fighters who learned they could disable it with a simple Molotov cocktail. The Elephant is possibly the rarest surviving tank from World War II. Only ninety were ever built, and now only two are thought to exist. At the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, you will see a crack team restore a rusted and beat up machine that has been left on the sidelines since 1944.

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