Officers are awarded medals in the Soviet Union during World War II. Interior of an office. A Russian Government official awards medals to the officers. The officers shake hands with the official and receive the medals.
Opening scene shows a Soviet gun boat underway patrolling waters near the Soviet Union during World War 2. Closeups of several crew members. Two in the stern of the boat stand near a collection of depth charges. An officer peer through binoculars.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War 2. Camera pans over battle-scarred and destroyed Soviet fortifications. A lone unarmed Soviet soldier raises his hands as he is encountered by German soldiers.among the fortifications. More views of destroyed concrete bunkers with steel reinforcing exposed. View changes to cross marking battlefield grave of a German soldier. His personal helmet and gear are placed on the cross. His comrades in arms pay their respects with helmets removed and render Nazi salutes.
German Operation Barbarossa, invasion of the Soviet Union in World War 2. Opening scene of film shows wartime damage near the sand bag protected Opera and Ballet Theater building in Odessa during World War 2. Glimpse of a Soviet armored vehicle, derived from an STZ-3 agricultural tractor, used during the Siege of Odessa. View of Soviet defenders running through a trench, during the two month German siege. View of Sevastopol, Crimea. A statue in the foreground and Legislative Assembly building in the background, with dense white smoke rising from behind it. Soviet soldiers firing a large defense gun in a Gorky fortress; firing a large gun from a seaport wharf and from a railroad car, and Soviet troops firing small arms in fields, including Degtyaryov machine guns. A Soviet soldier firing a Maxim heavy machine gun. View from overlooking hill of the Odessa Black Sea Naval Base. German troops entering the fringes of Sevastopol. One throws a hand grenade. Views of Soviet defenders firing machine guns. In the city, German soldiers fight street by street. Several are seen scurrying along a sidewalk, keeping close to a building for protection. Others rush into damaged buildings trying to flush out Soviet defenders with hand grenades. Camera pans over ruins of the destroyed city of Sevastopol. Dead German soldiers lying in ruins. One lies atop across the front of a Panzer VI tank. His uniform is in flames. Closeup of his hand. More dead German soldier are seen on the ground near a knocked out German tank. View of a large crowd of people. Soviet officers on horseback review a formation of troops. Glimpse of marching armed Soviet soldiers.
German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. German soldiers fight Russians on a street. The soldiers unroll a cable. The Germans announce on a loudspeaker asking the Soviets to surrender. Vehicles burn on a road. Columns of smoke rise. Captured Soviet tanks and artillery pieces. Soviet prisoners march after being captured by the Germans during Operation Barbarossa.
Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. German officers question Soviet prisoners. German chiefs confer. German troops advance to find retreating Soviet Armies. German bombers and fighter aircraft in flight. Aerial views from German aircraft as they strafe Soviet positions. Gun camera footage from German fighter aircraft firing on Soviet positions. Smoke rises after aerial bombing by the Germans. A German aircraft strafes a Russian railroad train. Smoke rises from a wrecked train. View of German Luftwaffe pilot inside cockpit of a light bomber aircraft.