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Smoke arises due to the explosion of shells fired by the Russian soldiers on the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

Activities of the Russian soldiers on the Eastern Front during World War II. Russian soldiers fire artillery at the German army. Smoke rises from explosions on the battlefield. Snow covered field.

Date: 1943
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063231
German tanks and supplies moved forward to attack Russians in Russia.

German Panther tanks of 5.Pz.Div, Pz.IV's and supplies are moved forward in Russia on railway flatcars. Troop trains move on the front, trenches are dug and command post set up. German soldier climbs up tower. Mortars, artillery, and machine guns are fired. Grenades are hurled and German Tiger tanks counterattack under protection of artillery fire. Tigers seen are from s.Pz.Abt.503 and SS.Pz.Rgt 2 (Das Reich) in 1943 and s.Pz.Abt.502 with ace Otto Carius in 1944. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039042
Leaders of U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union meet in Teheran, Iran, to plan actions against Nazi Germany during World War II

Film begins showing a U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane in flight over the city of Cairo and Pyramids, in Egypt during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's voice is heard speaking in his 1943 Christmas report to the Armed Forces. He states that following the Cairo Conference, he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to Teheran, Iran. View of city of Teheran from an airplane overhead. View of front of the Soviet Embassy building there. Wider view showing conference principals on the porch with reporters and photographers below the steps. Next, a closer look with Soviet Marshal Stalin, President Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Churchill, seated on chairs, conversing. Closeup of the Big Three with their military commanders standing behind them. Views of ongoing Soviet operations on the Eastern Front. Russian troops firing field artillery from a snowy field. (A transport airplane is in the far background.) Shells bursting on snowy hillside. Soviet soldiers training in white arctic clothing rush through toward tanks and lie down in the snow. Three Soviet aircraft buzz a snow covered field. A huge explosion is seen and then Soviet cavalry charge across snow. View shifts to U.S. Army troops operating in Italy. A jeep filled with soldiers tows an artillery field piece across a shallow river. U.S. soldiers ride across a stream in a truck. Rear view of artillery piece being towed toward an italian town. Glimpses of aerial combat between Allied and German aircraft. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Mark Clark are seen riding in a jeep across a bridge in Italy. Glimpse of Italian people trying to clean up destroyed section of a town. Portrait of Benito Mussolini in the debris. General Eisenhower walking with a local British commanding officer and General Mark Clark, in Italy. Eisenhower and Clark at an outdoor briefing by British officers. Eisenhower pinning the Legion of Merit medal on U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant General Carl Spaatz, deputy commander of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces who President Roosevelt says has been selected to be commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe. Glimpse of B-24 Liberator bombers dropping bombs in Europe. Film shifts back to Teheran and the Big Three Leaders sitting in chairs. Closeups of them. Then their foreign secretaries step being them (Molotov, Hull, and Eden.) Nazi swastika flag. German armed forces marching on parade. German boys playing on artillery pieces under watchful eyes of German soldiers. Children at a playground. European farmers harvesting grain by hand. German troops in black parading. Glimpse of Adolf Hitler giving impassioned speech. Several views of Teheran conferees. President Roosevelt holding a ceremonial sword. Scenes of good will with hand shakes among conferees. Glimpses of British, Soviet, and Chinese troops attacking. Massed flags of the Allies.

Date: 1943, November
Duration: 4 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033720
German infantry supported by tanks, artillery, rockets, and Stuka planes move up near Nevel, Russia

Animated map starts the film, showing the Eastern (Russian) front in vicinity of the Dnieper River, during beginning of winter, 1943-44, as German forces battle against Soviet forces in World War 2. German troops are seen in deep trenches and lying prone behind rubble. Light snow covers the ground. Closeups of German tiger tanks moving along a muddy path beside a river. German Panzergrenadiers taking a smoking break during a lull in combat. German soldiers trudging through mud as snow falls. They pass by some German artillery field pieces firing at Soviet positions. Heavy German guns firing. German troops hurrying toward entrenched positions. Closeup of two soldiers conversing as one points toward Soviet positions. A soldier takes up his defensive spot at the mouth of a dugout at the end of a trench. Closeup of two German soldiers smoking cigarettes. A German soldier reports to an officer at the front, who pins a medal on him and shakes his hand. Another view of a soldier smoking a cigarette. German soldiers walk past some knocked out tanks. Closeups as they pass the camera. One soldier looks skyward. A large formation of German Junkers Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers is seen overhead. View from a Stuka cockpit, as it dives emitting classic sound. Stuka aircraft diving and dropping bomb that are seen bursting on ground below. Good closeup of Stuka in a dive.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675053350
Russian troops fire guns, and dead German soldier lying on a snow covered area in Eastern Front during World War II.

Russian troops fight against Germans in Eastern Front during World War 2, in the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket. Russian troops in the Ukraine on trucks, horse drawn artillery and tanks move forward near Chanderoki. The Soviet troops wearing woolen coats and hats move forward in wind and snow blizzard conditions. The Soviet troops with horse drawn artillery advance on the snow during the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive. A Russian soldier looks through a cross shaped binocular device or range finder as another soldier stands beside him atop a lookout platform erected in a tall tree. A column of German troops advancing at a distance. A soldier looks through binoculars. The Russian Infantry troops carrying guns advance. The troops load a field artillery gun and fire the field guns. The Soviet field guns firing. Russian fighter aircraft fly in formation low across the front, bound for the German line. Troops near an artillery gun load and fire the gun. Russian Infantry advances. An officer looks through binoculars. The troops load guns and fire the guns. The Russian troops fire mortars. A soldier carries a shell. The soldier loads the shell in an artillery. The troops loading guns and firing the guns. Explosions on the battlefield as artillery shells hit targets. A dead German soldier lying in the snow. Animated map shows the Cherkasy - Korsun region of the USSR, Dnieper River, and Soviet troop movements. Russian troops firing guns and wheel mounted machine guns give cover for Russian soldiers advancing across an open battle field. Explosions in the background. The troops firing. A group of frozen dead German soldiers on the snow covered field.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675069369
Red Army fights back invasion of Nazi forces and evacuate their cities during World War II.

Battles fought by Russians fighting military invasion from Germany during World War II. A poster motivates Russians to fight as bravely as their ancestors. Bells of a church ring as people pray for victory. Soviet Army front liners briefed. Warplanes, infantry and artillery advance in snowy battlefields to evacuate invading Germans. Guns fire, planes fly, tanks and cavaliers march to push back enemy, in dense snow cover. Russian warplanes strike German bases in Russia. Cavaliers and infantrymen advance to evacuate Germans. Red Army on victory parade through the Russian cities evacuated from Germans. Civilians cheer and greet soldiers. Ruined houses and buildings set fire by Germans.

Date: 1943
Duration: 7 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036935