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Soviet Premier Kalinin and members of Allied military mission in Moscow, Russia, bid farewell to Harry Hopkins
Members of Allied military mission in Moscow, Soviet Union bid farewell to Harry Hopkins, after his visit with them in the week of July 28, 1941, during World War II. A car carrying Harry Hopkins, personal assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt, arrives at a Moscow airport. Hopkins steps from the car and is greeted by a British Naval officer. Next, Soviet Head of State, Mikhail Kalinin, arrives by car and strides forward toward Hopkins and other officials gathered near a C-47 transport airplane. Two Soviet military officers converse with a civilian. American Brigadier General Joseph McNarny (member of Hopkins' party) speaking with Averell Harriman ( Roosevelt's special envoy to Britain for expediting Lend-lease). In a gathering of military officers and civilians, a British officer exchanges salutes with another officer. kalinin and Hopkins conversing amicably. A man lights Harriman's cigarette. Hopkins begins passing out some documents and shaking hands with persons seeing him off. He and Kalinin shake hands vigorously. He climbs aboard the airplane, followed by General McNarny.
Film 'Why We Fight' episode "Prelude to War" depicts battle scenes in various countries during World War II.
Series 'Why We Fight' episode "Prelude to War" depicts the battles during World War II. United States soldiers parade on street lead by a band. Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The London Blitz with buildings destroyed and burning. The Eiffel Tower in Paris with Nazi flag flying atop it. German troops marching into Paris, through the Arc de Triomphe. Japanese warplanes bombing shanghai, China, in 1937. Chinese residents running for shelter. Glimpse of German "Schwerer Gustav" 80 cmrailway gun firing during German offensive against Soviet Union in 1941. German forces entering Czechoslovakia in 1938. German mounted troops entering France in 1940. Heavy guns firing. German ships en route to Norway 1940. German Ju-52 aircraft flying low over trees. Montage showing rapid succession of war scenes, including heavy guns firing, smoke rising, explosions, an aircraft shot down and crashing straight down, German armor on the move, German Ju-52 aircraft dropping paratroopers into Holland and one flying over Athens, Greece, with Mount Lykabettus in the background. More of the same with Narrator mentioning Belgium, Albania, Yugoslavia, and Russia (where citizens are seen digging anti-tank trenches and fortifications). Cavalry charging across a field. A German tank rolling forward. A German Dornier Do-17 bomber taking off, and bombs falling.
Soviets mobilize for war on the home front during the German invasion of Russia in World War II
A huge number of local men, volunteering to join the Red Army, are seen parading (in civilian clothes) through a Soviet town, in 1941, during time of the World War 2 German invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. Men lined up at an outdoor recruiting station where Army officers and a clerk are seated at a table. View of a man signing his name and date of birth a sheet of paper. Next, he shakes hands with all the recruiters. Next, recruits are seen walking in loose formation. They are still in civilian clothes, but carry sacks with their first government- issued belongings. Change of scene shows workers in a factory and miners working in a coal mine. they use a machine driven conveyor to move chunks of coal from the mine. Scientists at work. The man at extreme right is Soviet Nobel Laureate Physicist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Peter Kapitza). He heads the Department of Oxygen Industry. attached to the USSR Council of Ministers. Oxygen bubbles in a scientific glass device. Several views of fiery molten steel flowing in a steel mill. Older retired man back at work in a machine shop, operating a milling machine, to help the war effort. A man using calipers as he instructs a woman in a machine shop. Closeups of a young women working on various machines in the shop. One at a lathe, stops to inspect a piece of turned steel she is making. A man hot forging a part on a drop forge. A woman monitoring machinery controlling the forge. Women from rural areas in the Ukraine, attend a class to learn about tractors. Instructor using a large illustration to explain parts of a tractor. One of the women manipulates a tractor part. Another adjusts a carburetor. One closes the side hood of a tractor. One woman gets behind the wheel of a tractor, for the first time.Her instructor manipulates its gears as they drive it forward. A line of school children walks in a village with their teachers. Next, the girls are seen cultivating crops on a truck farm, and the boys are seen working in a wheat field. Three boys are assigned "Sentry Duty" and climb wooden towers to maintain lookout for invading German paratroops or other forces. An older man performing similar duties on a rooftop in a village. Another man on the lookout atop a wooden tower. An old man with a rifle on the lookout. Another man holding a rifle in a wheat field.
Events on the Eastern front early in World War II; Nazi Germany battles Russia
Goosestepping German troops on the march and German Panzer I tanks moving in formation across a field in World War 2. A formation of German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch airplanes in flight overhead, accompanied by two He-111 bombers. German paratroopers jumping from Ju-52 aircraft. Grand Admiral Erich Johann Albert Raeder head of the German Navy, making a statement. Bucolic scenes of European farm country and grape vineyards, with local people harvesting crops and grapes. Soviet troops marching on parade to a military band on the sidelines in Red Square, Moscow, soviet Union. Soviet motorcycle soldiers armed with light machine guns. Soviet T-26 light tanks in formation. Glimpse of Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral and other famous buildings. Soviet troops crossing a river on inflated boats. A long column of T-26 tanks moving along a dirt road. Sky filled with variety of Soviet warplanes, including four-engine bombers (with fixed landing gear) to bi-wing aircraft. Soviet paratroopers jumping from a Tupolev ANT-6 bomber. They climb out on the huge corrugated wing and slide off. View out past the tail of an ANT-6 bomber. Soviet Union and Japan conclude a neutrality pact. Views of the pact being signed by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov for the Soviet Union and by Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka and Ambassador Yoshitsugu, for the Japanese, in Moscow on April 13, 1941. Joseph Stalin is observing in the center of the scene.
The United States mobilizes and joins Allies in World War II. A montage of numerous World War 2 period images.
Film opens with views of goosestepping German, Italian, and Japanese soldiers during parade reviews in their respective countries. Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse. American battleships burning in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur decorating a soldier in Manila, Philippines. Air raid sirens sounding in Manila and residents hurrying to take cover. Heavy black smoke rising from a bombed site and emergency vehicles responding and rushing to several bombed and burning locations. A burning rickshaw amidst other bombing rubble and bodies of victims. U.S. Army General MacArthur greeted by Australian officials at his headquarters in Brisbane, Australia. Sign reads: Headquarters UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES in Australia. American flag flying on tall flagpole. View from ship underway in supply convoy. A battleship seen on horizon and a destroyer passing the camera ship. U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the "Lend Lease Act" of 1941. A U.S. industrial plant with four tall stacks emitting smoke. A steam locomotive belching steam. A locomotive pulling an open car and some tank cars. New 1941 Plymouth automobiles coming off a production line. A new M3 Medium Tank in a U.S. factory. View of Liberty Ships, including the "Zebulon Pike" and the "Henry Knox" under construction at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Terminal Island, California. U.S. Navy Destroyers constructed at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. One is being launched, next to DD-446 (the USS Radford). A formation of U.S. Navy aircraft including Curtiss SBC Helldiver scout bombers and Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. A tight formation of U.S. Army Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bombers in flight. A formation of U.S. Army Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft in flight. Closeup of a U.S. Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. Several huge gun barrels for guns under construction at a U.S. war plant. Large artillery shells lined up in a manufacturing plant. U.S. Army M3 Medium tanks under construction at a factory. Steam and smoke rising from a U.S. industrial plant. Aerial view of open pit iron mine. Sparks shooting up inside a steel plant. A virtual "forest" of oil derricks in the Western U.S. Coal being transported by railway. View from stern of a warship in a convoy. An Atlanta-class light cruiser leading three destroyers at sea. Transport ships in convoys to places like Australia, Britain, and the Middle East. Troops on a pier near a large transport ship. A stack of wartime supplies on a pier next to a ship destined for Russia. Glimpse of wake from a U.S. warship having triple guns astern. Silhouette of a U.S. Navy Enterprise-class Aircraft carrier, with an aircraft taking off from her deck. The aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga. U.S. Army soldiers marching on parade, followed by numerous jeeps with machine guns mounted in their rears. Young men being drafted into the U.S. military. A draft lottery being conducted. New recruits doing calisthenics. Trucks pulling artillery pieces. B-18 Bolo bombers flying over U.S. tanks. Closeup of M3 tank. Cavalry fording a stream. Soldiers on motorcycles. Troops crossing a pontoon bridge. A loaded troop ship. A troop transport at Newfoundland. Sentry in Trinidad. Troops encamped in Bermuda.Troopship docked in Greenland. Troops disembarking in Iceland. Formations of Curtis P-36 Hawk aircraft. Douglas DC-2 aircraft factory. P-36s with engines running. M3 tank suspended on factory crane. Officials of Pan American nations siding with Allies. Allied troops including Dutch, Belgian, Yugoslav, Greek, Czech, Filipino, Polish, Norwegian, Free French, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Canadian. British warships. British Hawker Tempest aircraft. British commandos. Russian troops on parade. Chinese troops on the Great Wall of China.
German 6th Army surrenders to Soviet forces at battle of Stalingrad in World War II
German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, enters a wooden building near Stalingrad where he surrenders the German 6th Army. He, and Arthur Schmidt, General-lieutenant, Chief of the 6th Army Staff; take seats,surrounded by Soviet Army officers. Scene shifts to the twenty two Divisions (300 thousand men) of the 6th Army trudging through the snow as they surrender. Most of them are seen in open fields near Stalingrad, Russia. Closeups of some make their way along a street in the city. Many wear makeshift shoes and other contrived clothing. They are clearly suffering from their lack of any cold weather equipment. Aerial view of a long line of surrendering German soldiers making their way on snow-covered street in Leningrad. Closeups of some of the German soldiers. One soldier walking slowly, alone, across a stretch of snow. He wears woven homemade coverings over his feet.He heads, alone, toward an open stretch of barren snowy land. Camera focuses on ice strewn Volga River. A dead German soldier lies on its bank. View of Russian countryside, the following Spring. An animated map depicts the extent of the Soviet advance in the previous winter with the occupation of 185 thousand square miles of territory (more than previously occupied by the German forces). Film shows weapons captured during the 6th Army surrender, including German aircraft, tanks, heavy artillery guns, light machine guns, rifles, artillery shells and small arms ammunition. Glimpse of dead German soldiers in the snow. Aerial view of rail cars containing captured German military supplies. Lines of surrendering German soldiers making their way in the snow. Numerous dead German soldiers in body bags, in the snow. Animated film reviews the German operation Barbarossa and subsequent events in the German invasion of Soviet Russian in 1941, 1942, and 1943. Glimpses of Russian troops dressed in white and British troops advancing. Film concludes with artistic representation of United Nations flags and troops marching to victory.