At the outbreak of the Second World War, tanks were still evolving from interwar experiments into true battlefield weapons.

Shrapnel discovered inside The Tank Museum’s Tiger 131, the only running WWII Tiger I tank, highlights its historic 1943 capture by British forces in Tunisia.

Eight decades after the end of World War II, a Massachusetts museum maintains and operates the massive relics to perpetuate an understanding of democracy — and the sacrifices required to sustain it.