German troops at the Eastern Front during World War II . Animated map illustrates Eastern Prussian-Lithuanian border and German troop's movement into Kaunas German troops stand near a field gun. Troops loaded on tanks and march forward. They fire a gun. Smoke arises due to fire. Damaged buildings due to fire. Trucks loaded with troops and as they enter a city. Kaunasians wave to passing German vehicles. A view of the city. Lithuanian villagers present flowers to advancing German troops. A German soldier on a bicycle waves.
German troops at the Eastern Front during World War II. A map illustrates Eastern Prussian-Lithuanian border and movement of German troops into Daugavpils, Kaunas, Brest-Litovsk and Grodno.. German troops fire artillery. Smoke arises due to fire. A view of a damaged building. A German soldier runs. Troops roundup all Russian prisoners. Prisoners march in a group. German medium bombers Heinkel He 111 in flight during a bombing mission. A pilot wearing a helmet in the cockpit. The bomber drops bombs. Smoke arises doe to explosion. Russian prisoners march. The bomber drops bomb on the target.
Nazi Operation Barbarossa (Invasion of Soviet Union during World War II). A map of Eastern Front. Flare goes up in dark. The silhouettes of troops in dark. Artillery fire and burning target in East Prussia. Troops raise a barricade at a border post. German troops move cautiously forward. Explosion occurs in a building
German forces pulling artillery across shallow water, and pulling a landing craft along a beach. Aerial view of a large body of German soldiers in formations in a field and many miling about in an opern area An area of wrecked trucks. A German tank turns corner. Two German motorcyclists follow a truck. German light tank . A sign reads ' Maniysh Damm, Grenze Europe Asien' (Frontier border between Europe and Asia).German cavalry units advance along road upon the large, wide earthen dam. A barge with trucks in a lake.
Opening scene shows a German soldier using a sounding range and direction finder to locate British aircraft attacking German installations in France during World War 2. The next scene is during a foggy night. German searchlights are seen trying to locate attacking British aircraft. A flare is seen falling toward the ground. German antiaircraft guns fire. Engine sounds of aircraft are heard. View of German gunners firing tracer bullets and heavier antiaircraft guns skyward. A ball of fire in the air marks a struck British airplane. Closeup of burning British aircraft wreckage. Next, a ledger of British aircraft downed by a German antiaircraft battery is seen. It shows a list of British aircraft shot down in July and August, including: Bristol Blenheim light bomber; Short Stirling bomber, numerous Spitfires; and other aircraft. Workers are seen walking through a yard filled with the wreckage of British aircraft in a junk yard, where a powered crane is seen raising wings, and engines of the aircraft and loading them onto rail cars. The Narrator states that by November, the German defenses had downed 923 British aircraft. View of a loaded open rail car and a locomotive pulling loaded rail cars.
Soviet officers on the Eastern Front during World War II. Soviet soldiers listen as an officer addresses them. The soldiers applaud. A woman officer addresses men and women soldiers seated in front of her. Another Soviet officer addresses the troops.