A soviet sailor places diving helmet on head of a Soviet diver who descends into water for a recovery operation in World War 2. Next, the engine of a wrecked German warplane is seen being raised from the river by a cable being pulled by numerous Soviet soldiers on a steep hillside, besides the water, Scene shifts away from shoreline to a pier jutting into the river, The pier contains a diving board and a tower (perhaps for lifeguards). Soviet military men are standing on the pier, observing the recovery efforts. Some are in Naval uniforms with White hats. The soldiers on the hillside pull on cables fastened to the aircraft wreckage and pull it ashore. View of the wreckage, piled up atop the steep bank overlooking the river. Closeup of the aircraft instrument panels.Two Soviet soldiers examine wing sections that appear to be from a German Junkers 88 (Ju 88) bomber. Soviet officers retrieve personal items that belonged to the German flyers, including: two small religious medallions; an iron cross medal; and a Narvik Shield (German: Narvikschild) medal. More closeups of the wreckage atop the river bank.
Camera pans over homes with thatched roofs on a hillside in a rural Soviet village during World War 2. An older man shouldering a rifle stands guard over the area. Scene shifts to field of grain. Another older man stands guard atop an elevated wooden lookout post. A team of horses pulls a wagon loaded with many women and youth farm workers. Another view of the first elderly armed guard, as he looks skyward. A Soviet Russian Tupolev Tu-2 bomber is seen in flight. The guard watches as it passes overhead. Scene shifts to a tractor pulling a reaper combine with several men working on it in a farm field. Closeup of threshed wheat grains. View from above of the grain being harvested.
Soviet officers and soldiers review map in woods and then disburse and man various military vehicles in World War II. A crew occupies a Soviet T-38 tank that starts moving toward the camera. A Soviet BA-10M heavy armored car moves past the camera. Two Soviet soldiers together lift a bomb and secure it under the wing of a fighter bomber airplane. Another T-38 tank passes the camera. A formation of Tupolev ANT-40(SB) bombers in flight overhead. Soviet infantry marching through fields. Mounted Soviet cavalry passing the camera. A truck pulling an open trailer carrying Soviet soldiers. Several camouflaged truckloads of soldiers, each pulling a 76 mm divisional gun M1902. Soviet artillerymen firing guns from woods. Shells exploding nearby. A 152mm gun firing. A line of shells exploding across the field of view in the distance. A T-38 tank passes a burning building. Soviet infantry advance across a field. A wrecked German 8-ton half-track Sd-Kfz personnel carrier. Skull image painted on German vehicles, including a wrecked motorcycle. Glimpse of dead German soldier on the ground. Closeups of German soldier prisoners of war. More views of abandoned and wrecked German weapons.
Soviet soldiers receive orders to attack German forces. They salute and walk towards T-34 tank. Soldier on motorcycle fords muddy stream. Soldiers climb into what looks like a T-34 tank with turret turned backward. Soviet armorer directs loading of bomb on a TB-7 bomber. line of TB-7s. Navigator with charts. Aviators flight planning. A Soviet Polikarpov I-15 airplane with engine running. Pilot climbing into a Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter plane. I-15 taking off. Closeup of large all-metal Soviet aircraft with portholes and windows in fuselage. Another I-15 taking off. Another pilot climbing into YaK-9. Closeup of I-15. Formation of I-15s flying low over ground. Soviet officers reviewing aerial photos. Soviet gunners firing a heavy field howitzer (Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider). Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun firing. Lots of field artillery firing. Aircrews planning. Several Soviet Polikarpov I-16 fighter planes in formation. Several T-26 tanks crossing a field and one crossing a wooden bridge. Russian infantry moving alongside a road and pulling a wheeled water-cooled 7.92 mm Maxim Machine Gun model 1910. A tank plowing through sandy hill. I-16 fighter planes flying above T-26 tanks maneuvering below. Soviet planes dropping bombs and tanks moving through explosions and smoke. View of bombardier in airplane. Huge explosion from a bomb. A Tupolev ANT-40 bomber flying through flak. Another huge explosion on the ground. ANT-40 aka Tupolev SB-2, in flight. More views of bombs dropping and huge explosions on ground. I-16s dive bombing. Tanks scurrying through smoke. Infantry following T-26 tanks. Smoke all around. Two I-16s in formation. Tanks laying smoke screens on ground below. More huge explosions. A Tupolev SB-2 speeding overhead. More explosions. A German Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe aircraft in flight (reversed film-Swastika backwards). Gunners arm anti-aircraft guns and fire them as well as quad Maxim machine guns. A burning airplane descending. Crashed airplane burning. Narrator states "Junkers and Messerschmitts" are downed in flames. Many guns firing. Infantry and tanks passing area in flames. Soldier crawling in field. Yak fighter landing. Skull and crossbones wiped from captured German trucks. German prisoners stepping from open wooden ferry. Others surrendering. German POWs being marched. Military records being unloaded from German truck. More German prisoners. Soviet medic treating German wounded soldier. Large amounts of currency captured. Soviet soldiers offering German POWs cigarettes.
Soviet farmers are seen harvesting grain in a field, during World War 2. Closeup of men and women operating a tractor pulled paddle-style harvester. They leave sheaves of cut grain behind as they continue harvesting. Closeup of men and women gathering the sheaves with pitch forks and loading them onto wagons. A line of horse-drawn wagons, loaded with sheaves, moves along the edge of the field. Closeup of a wheat field. View of tractor pulling a harvesting combine as it cuts wheat. Closeup of reaper blades.Closeup of Soviet farmer in the combine. He wears several medals on his work jacket. View from behind two farmers in the combine. Threshed wheat being discharged from the combine. Farmer catches some in his hands. Farmers stand knee-deep in threshed wheat in a truck next to the combine.
Film starts showing Soviet infantry walking across an open field, during World War 2. . Heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. Soviet soldier loading shell into a 120 mm mortar PM-38. Shells bursting near low structures. Soviet infantry moving quickly but cautiously across the area. Sounds of machine gun and smalls arms fire is heard. The Soviet troops enter area of several buildings. Change of scene shows Soviet woman soldier dressing and bandaging the wound of another soldier. Both are in battle gear including steel helmets. Closeup of the soldiers bandaged arm. More views of artillery firing from woods. Soviet soldiers processing a captured German soldier prisoner of war. Soviet soldiers enjoy reading a Russian newspaper. Soviet soldiers scanning skies for aircraft, through binoculars and telescope. Two German aircraft are seen flying low over the area. Soviet soldier signals for anti aircraft artillery to fire. A plane is seen diving toward the ground. Still image of black cloud from the ground is shown as narrator comments.