Combat Dealers
Combat Dealers follows the adventures of Bruce Crompton, a buyer and seller of old military kit. He travels around the barns and battlefields of Europe and the old Eastern Bloc, hunting down everything from old radio kits to WWII tanks. There is nothing Bruce won't do to get the right kit at the right price, and to make a tidy profit. Across the series Bruce and his team turn rusty military metal into historical and financial gold.
Type: tv
Season: 5
Episode: N/A
Duration: N/A minutes
Release: 2014-04-30
Rating: 6
Season 1 - Combat Dealers
2014-04-30
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton travels the world to view vehicles and memorabilia worth buying and restoring. In the first edition, the larger-than-life Londoner gets his hands on a 70-year-old Volkswagen Schwimmwagen - an amphibious car that he test-drives through a lake at a country fare.
2014-05-07
Bruce Compton hopes to buy a rare German Hetzer tank from Russian oligarch Slava, who will need some persuading.
2014-05-14
Bruce Compton hopes to make some money selling props to Hollywood producers who require genuine military vehicles for a movie shoot.
2014-05-21
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton recreates a D-Day parachute jump in a genuine Second World War uniform.
2014-05-28
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton visits Germany, where he discovers a nuclear core from a secret Nazi weapon-testing factory.
2014-06-04
Bruce Compton hopes to make a handsome profit by selling some of the long-forgotten treasures that lie around his cluttered warehouse.
Season 2 - Combat Dealers
2015-08-05
Military equipment collector Bruce Crompton is in the Philippines with Freddy where they find an artillery gun from the Japanese occupation in the Second World War.
2015-08-12
Eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Compton travels the world to view vehicles and memorabilia worth buying and restoring.
2015-08-19
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton flogs an Australian museum a Second World War tank destroyer worth half a million pounds, which still needs a barrel.
2015-08-26
Military equipment collector Bruce Crompton takes on a huge project to restore and rebuild a German Panther tank. But to do so he must part with some Second World War `halftracks'.
2015-09-02
The twins ride the Redball Express, while Bruce Crompton blows up a van with Second World War rifle grenades and tracks down a `Deuce-and-a-half' American army truck.
2015-09-09
Bruce travels from Plymouth to Illinois by buying and selling various German hardware, while his mate Kevin purchases the last remaining German torpedo boat for five million pounds.
2015-09-16
Bruce purchases a Second World War army uniform for £40,000 when hunting for paratrooper gear, while Hus almost throws up when doing loops in a Mustang.
2015-09-23
Bruce is doing up a wartime German tank engine so that he can pay for Glenn Miller's army uniform, a special Second World War relic.
Season 3 - Combat Dealers
2017-01-10
Military collector Bruce Crompton travels the globe to buy and sell the biggest and best wartime memorabilia.
2017-01-17
Military collector Bruce Crompton travels the globe to buy and sell the biggest and best wartime memorabilia.
2017-01-24
Eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Crompton heads to a Martello Tower on the Channel Islands. Meanwhile, the twins are tasked to get a Second World War Napalm filled flamethrower ready for a buyer.
2017-01-31
Bruce and Hus are on an Italian road-trip. From Venice to Lake Garda they meet up with dealers whose objects tell the incredible story of Italy in WWII.
2017-02-07
Bruce uncovers plans for the D-Day invasion, there's a bumpy landing for a Dakota aeroplane, and in France his passion hits new heights with a parachute jump!
2017-02-14
Bruce Crompton acquires an extremely rare - and valuable - German Panther tank - and its original undercoat is more pink than camouflage. However, getting parts is a struggle.
2017-02-21
At Biggin Hill, south-east London, military equipment collector Bruce Crompton views a collector's haul of Second World War Spitfires. Plus, the twins prepare some wartime artillery guns to export to Australia - but it's no easy feat.
2017-02-28
Military equipment collector Bruce Crompton heads to Finland looking for props, including Cold War Russian anti-aircraft guns, for a new blockbuster movie.
2017-03-07
Eccentric military equipment collector Bruce Crompton heads on a First World War treasure hunt, finding a mysterious soldier's medal from the Battle of the Somme as well as the world's most expensive football.
2017-03-14
Bruce Crompton buys a rare Sherman tank in Ohio. However, before he sells it on it he wants to boost its authenticity and value, so consultd a tank expert for advice.
Season 4 - Combat Dealers
2018-09-25
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.
2018-10-02
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.
2018-10-09
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.
2018-10-16
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.
2018-10-23
A French museum asks Bruce for help in acquiring an incredibly rare German Panzer 1 tank. He also explores the remains of secret underground Nazi war factories.
2018-10-30
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.
2018-11-06
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.
2018-11-13
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.
2018-11-27
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.
2018-11-30
Bruce hears about some Second World War British RAF gear from the Battle of Arnhem for sale, which is of big interest to ex-paratroopers like him and Freddie.
Season 5 - Combat Dealers
2020-05-08
Bruce Crompton marks the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, sending rare German halftrack vehicles to partake in a battle re-enactment, in France, he sees VE Day relics.
2021-01-24
Bruce Crompton and Freddie Kruyer hunt down parts for a Lancaster Bomber for a Museum in England.
2021-01-31
Bruce hunts down relics of one of the greatest military commanders of all-time, George S. Patton. Then, he tries to close a deal worth £200,000.
2021-02-07
After four years of careful restoration, Bruce races to get his Panther tank ready to ship to Australia. And, he discovers an interesting tank manual.
2021-02-14
A video game company send Bruce on a mission to find items relating to the Blitz. He tries to buy a 50-kilogram Luftwaffe bomb and an air raid siren.
2021-02-21
Bruce is asked to find World War Two spy items that help tell the story of Ian Fleming and James Bond. First, he visits a debonair dealer in London.
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