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).
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace's journey to China through Soviet union. Animated map of the world. He visits Siberian railroad and being greeted by an engineer from Leningrad. Wallace along with American visitors and engineer visit a farm. A view of the houses in the city and ducks in a pond. Then they visit a farm. Tomatoes and cucumbers in the green house. They look at the vegetables and fruits in the farm. Wallace eats a fruit. Pigs and cattle in the filed. He stands with a cattle. Next they visit a small community or a village. They enter a village store. A woman looks out from a window. Next they visit a village soviet. The American visitors shake hands with a man.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet union. Vice President along with American visitors visit Lake Baikal. The view of mountains around the Lake. Visitors and Wallace on a tug to take a trip of the lake and the scientists explains their work. They then go by a plane to the eastern side of the Lake. He talks to a Russian flier.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. German troops on a tank moving on a path. Russian prisoners of war walking in columns behind the tank. A German soldier escorting the Soviet prisoners. An army vehicle following the prisoners. A building in the background. Several views of the war prisoners.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. German soldiers with guns in Soviet Union. Troops on motorcycles and trucks moving on a path. Soldiers beside artillery on a field. The soldiers firing the artillery. Horse drawn artillery and troops moving on a path between the fields. German soldiers firing artillery in the field. Smoke rising from shelled positions. Houses in view. A German tank and a few soldiers beside it. A house and a vehicle near it in the background. The troops on motorcycles beside the tank. Explosions occurring at a distance. Soldiers standing between stumps of trees. The soldiers advancing on a field. A damaged building in the background. Smoke rising from areas in the far background. Debris scattered on the ground and a tank on a path beside the debris. Thick clouds of smoke rising from bombed areas in the background. Several German tanks with troops moving on a path. Smoke filled air in the background.
The Russian Campaign of World War II. A German observation balloon in flight in Soviet Union. An airman looking through binoculars. German soldiers beside artillery on a field. German infantry and tanks moving on a path between fields. Troops and StuG III tank destroyers entering a city. A few German soldiers outside the entrance door of a building. Russian troops surrender and soldiers with raised arms step out of the door. Russian prisoners of war move in columns. German soldiers beside damaged buildings on a city street. Debris strewn on the street. A few soldiers on the bank of a water body. Smoke rising from shelled Russian positions in the background. A German 38t tank moving in water with a soldier atop the hatch. Artillery fired at more positions and smoke rising from the areas. Beute French Hotchkiss and Somua tanks firing at night and flares from the explosions.