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Operation Barbarossa in Russia. Germans bogged down by severe Russian winter and stiff Soviet resistance
A map shows the Eastern front. German infantry moving slowly in difficult snow conditions. Mules and sleds used to transport snow-covered arms and supplies. German troops take cover frequently as Soviet artillery shells strike very closeby . Counterfire by German heavy artillery and machine guns. Germans endure continued artillery barrages from Soviet artillery during the night. Germans employ StuG III Assault Guns as shields and as field artillery. They also fire field artillery pieces. German infantry move behind StuG's. (World War II period).
Japanese actions leading to 2nd Sino-Japanese war and attack on United States at Pearl Harbor in World War II
Japanese army officers examining foreign military equipment. A Japanese worker employing electric drill developed in a Western country. The Japanese freighter, Tatsuno Maru, loading scrap iron at a port in the United States. Other Japanese freighters loading coal and oil for shipment back to Japan. View of the Washington Naval Conference in Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, DC, held in 1921-22 and again in 1927 and 1930, to deal with several lingering issues. Glimpse of Japanese people holding flags while gathered near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Glimpse of Japanese army troops on parade. Japanese Navy warships at sea. A fleet of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers and Nakajima Ki-27 pursuit planes, parked on an airfield. A loose formation of Ki-27s airborne. Animated map illustrates Japanese fortification of Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall islands in the Pacific. Animated map illustrating China's greater size and population vis-a-vis Japan. Animated map illustrating Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931. New York Times newspaper with headline "Japs Seize Manchuria" hovers over fires burning in Manchuria. Other newspaper headlines reporting on Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia; the Spanish civil war; surrender of Czechoslovakia; invasion of Poland; assaults on France, Belgium, and the Netherlands by Nazi Germany; the London Blitz; and Nazi advances against Russia on the Eastern Front. Fnally, a Boston Hearald extra edition headline reports: "Pearl Harbor Bombed." A still photograph of Japanese Baron Tanaka Giichi (on left) with two other dignitaries, circa 1929. Japanese infantry streaming into Manchuria and then celebrating as they walk into local town. A busy street in a Chinese city. Japanese soldiers in Manchuria escorting local prisoners along a street. Animated map illustrating Japananese warships surrounding harbor of Shanghai, China. View from a Japanese ship bombarding Shanghai. Smoke rising from shell striking on Shanghai waterfront. View from land of severely damaged buildings on a street, and a shell exploding in background, as Chinese defenders move to successfully repel the Japanese forces. New map illustrates subsequent Japanese move, annexing Jehol, from occupied Manchukuo, and Korea. Japanese troops entering a town in Jehol. Sun newspaper headline: "League Censures Japan." Chinese diplomat protesting at League of Nations. Japanese troops exiting railroad trains in Jehol. Aisin Gioro Puyi aka Henry Pu Yi, Kangde Emperor (Kang-te Emperor) of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, is seen saluting Japanese troops on parade. Closeup of Puyi wearing shaded glasses, looking directly into the camera. chiang Kai-shek, with other Chinese officers. Reenactment of barbarian forces riding against China and thwarted by the Great Wall. Many Chinese walking in a long line along the Great Wall. Map tracing the Great Wall across China. Aerial view of the Great Wall from overflying airplane. Japanese troops marching through a city gate; infantry climbing a sheer cliff; and helmeted Japanese soldiers marching past civilians in a city. Map illustrated progress of Chinese unification by year 1937. Japanese officers conferring during occupation. Japanese troops leave a barracks, riding in open trucks. A line of the troop trucks moving along the dirt street of a town. The troops climb from their trucks in the town.
German Army advancing through a field in France.
German infantry advances through a field on the Eastern front. German Marder III H Panzerjaeger tank destroyers fire at targets. Scenes of smoking targets and destroyed tanks. (World War II period).
Blue Division Spanish soldiers (German Army volunteers) lean from railroad cars waving good bye to families during World War 2
Spanish Blue Division soldiers in Spain during World War II. They served as volunteers in the German Army on the eastern front. Spanish officers salute German soldiers. A Spanish officer receives flowers from a woman. The Blue Division soldiers look out of the windows of railroad cars. Augustin Muñoz Grandes, Commander of the Blue Division, greets the soldiers. Some soldiers say good bye to their families. The train pulls out of the station. The soldiers lean out of train. They are handed snacks, drinks, and other refreshments by the people gathered. Dignitaries present deliver speeches and Nazi salutes.
Spanish officials make speeches and Blue Division Spanish soldiers say goodbye to their families in Madrid, Spain.
Blue Division Spanish soldiers in Madrid, Spain during World War II. Flags of Spain and Germany on El Estacion del Norte train station in Madrid. Officers gives speeches. Spanish spectators observe. A train pulls into the station. A large crowd at the station. The Spanish citizens greet soldiers and salute them. Spanish soldiers say goodbye to their wives and families at the station. They are bound for the Eastern Front, serving as volunteers in the German Army.
Soviet Union film showing capabilities and equipment of Soviet army forces early in World War II
Opening slate states (in Russian) "Our resistance to the enemy gets stronger and grows." Completely hidden in woods are Soviet soldiers using various telescopes and binoculars to observe on the Eastern front during World War 2. An Air Force pilot sits in the cockpit of his hidden Yak 9 fighter plane. View of of its nose and three-bladed propeller. Camera pans across to a hidden Soviet T-34 tank, and then to several Soviet soldiers looking at maps as they sit in front of a tent. Closeup of the soldiers. A BT tank with several crew in it heads toward the camera on a path in the woods. A heavily camouflaged army truck fords a shallow stream. Several soldiers ride past the camera, in a T-26 tank, raising lots of dust. Another T-26 tank passes. A sodier using binoculars. A Soviet tank or self propelled gun carrier with a stubby howitzer and a machine gun internally mounted. Soldiers remove foliage covering a BR-5 280mm mortar, which commences firing. Shells explode raising huge clouds of smoke and earth. Several views of the BR-5 firing in forest. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground. One rises up and throws two items, in succession. Next a soldier fires a Browning M1917 .30 caliber machine gun. Soviet medics tending wounded. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 in flight overhead. Three Soviet Curtiss-Wright O-52 Owl aircraft fly in loose formation low over a body of water. View from ground of Yak-9 fighter plane coming in over trees to land. A German Bf 109 overhead. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars. Firre and smoke rising in the distance. Burning debris of crashed aircraft displaying Nazi swastika. Closeup of hands as Russian Air Force flyer makes entry into a log. Several smiling Soviet pilots stand together next to a Polikarpov I-153 airplane. They are dressed in leather flying jackets and have their goggles raised atop their hats. An officer with them is not wearing flying clothes. Soviet soldiers explore wreckage of a German warplane. Pieces of the wreckage are piled up in one spot. Several German prisoners are marched along a road guarded by a Soviet soldiers with pistols. A large group of German prisoner are marched in loose formation under guard.