A military parade in Madrid, Spain during World War II. Representatives of every branch in the parade. Aerial view of the parade. A large crowd gathers along the sides of streets. Officials and dignitaries review the parade. People applaud. Soldiers march. Soldiers aboard military vehicles passing on the street. Aircraft fly in formation overhead. The parade is reviewed by Head of State of Spain Francisco Franco.
German troops at the Lithuanian Front in winter, during World War II. Soldiers fire rifles and other guns at a battlefield. Allied aircraft in flight overhead. The soldiers load and fire anti aircraft guns. Smoke from firing and bombardment. Soldiers fire rifles from a trench. A soldier looks through binoculars. An Allied aircraft is shot down by German antiaircraft fire. A soldier talks over a field phone. German Soldiers come out of a dugout, wearing warm clothing on a snow covered field. German StuG III assault guns and tank moving along a road. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment . Tiger tanks of s.Pz.Abt.502 open fire. Barbed wire entanglements. German troops take up new positions in snowy battlefield. Soviet prisoners of war pose for camera.
Major General Schrapwitz arrives home in Germany during World War II. A band plays. The Major General is greeted by a large crowd. Soldiers stand holding guns. A crowd cheers. The Major General is interviewed.
German Generals meet in Germany during World War II. The Generals standing inside a building. Luftwaffe Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, General West and Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt meet in the building. The Generals seated at a desk discuss.
A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.
Soviet soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War II. Exteriors of a building. An artillery emplacement. A trail moves past the emplacement. Soviet officers confer at a map. A camouflaged soldier amidst trees. The soldier runs across a field and fires.
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