Allied Conference in Yalta, Crimea in Ukraine on coast of the Black Sea. The British, Russian and United States representatives meet to plan the political future of Europe after World War II. Livadia Palace, the summer residence of former Czar Nicolas II. Special communication lines are strung. Soviet Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov waits at air base for the British and U.S. delegations. Soldiers march in a field. Flags of Russia, Britain and U.S. Plane arrives at base. British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Adviser to President Roosevelt Harry Hopkins and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W.Averell Harriman arrive. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrive by plane. Lavadia Castle at the island. Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston Churchill arrives by car with President Roosevelt's daughter Anna Roosevelt. Prime Minister of Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin arrives. They discuss military and political postwar plans. They make decisions regarding postwar Germany. Family members of Allied officers visit the Palace. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin seated for a photograph.
The Battle for the Crimea in World War 2. Soviet armor and artillery and troops on the move in the Crimea. Soviet General Kliment Voroshilov and Alexandrovsky and troops board landing barges. The barges underway at sea. German aircraft bomb the barges. Explosions occur at sea. Russian anti aircraft guns fire from supporting ships. A smoke screen being laid. Soviet troops wade through water and come ashore. Soldiers enter ruined villages of Theodosia and Eupatoria. Civilians cheer and welcome the soldiers.
Romanian Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu, accompanied by high ranking officers, inspects Romanian troops and operations near Sevastopol in World War II. A map of Europe, showing central Ukrainian area and Crimea. Romanian infantry and tanks ascend a steep hills to occupy strategic positions. A monastery occupied by the military at an extreme high point, overlooking the Black Sea. A communications tower at the site.
Allied leaders at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. Interiors of Livadia Palace in Crimea. Officials confer and look at papers. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives at the palace. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin also arrives. Churchill's daughter Sarah Churchill in an army uniform as she talks to Anne Boettiger and Kathy Harriman.
Small U.S. military honor guard assembles at Saki airport in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine to greet President Franklin Roosevelt and party who will be arriving on a flight from Malta. They form up near a parked U.S. Air Force C-47. The President's 4-engine VC-54C is seen on final approach. It lands and and taxis in. Palm trees seen in distance. Field is under construction. Several people deplane. Air Force officers standing by car on tarmac. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, descends ladder from the parked VC-54C Presidential aircraft (nicknamed the "Sacred Cow"). President Roosevelt is seen after being seated in front seat of car, next to young soldier driver to whom he speaks. They drive off, preceded and followed by jeeps, carrying other members of the Presidential party. (World War II period).
The Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea, Soviet Union (Voronstov Palace Dvortsovoye Hwy, 10 Alupka, 98676 Crimea). Exteriors of the Vorontsov Palace. Tourists sit on benches in the palace garden. Busts lined up inside the palace. A fountain in front of the palace. White marble lions at the entrance. People come down the steps of the southern facade of the palace. A mermaid statue.