The German attack on the Soviet Union during World War II. An animation map depicting the German advance in the Soviet Union. The President of Germany Adolf Hitler discusses with other officers. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin addresses the soldiers. A tank advances. Fire rises as a bomb explodes. The Soviet soldiers attack through crumbling walls and factories. The soldiers fire from the window of a house. The soldiers run on a staircase. The soldiers fire from a damaged building. The soldiers advance. The soldiers push an artillery. A damaged building and a fountain in front. The French, German and British soldiers on the battle field.
British and Russian factories during World War II. Britain : Ammunition in crates in a factory. Ammunition stacked inside the factory. Women work on various machines in the factories of Britain. Soviet Union: A damaged roof of a factory. Workers work in the damaged factories. Hot material poured in a furnace. Women operate machines such as grinding machines and other machines to make war equipment.
War equipment prepared in industries of the United States during World War II. Burma: A Chinese man drops mud from baskets on a pole balanced on shoulder. Men dig land. A woman works. A boy works with a hammer. Men roll a roller to level mud. Chinese men advance in group. Brazil : Men work in rubber factories. Rubber sheets in the foreground. Guiana : A crane loads ore. United States: Smoke stacks in a factory. A hot iron furnace and steel production in a factory. Factory workers work in the factory sweating as they handle hot materials. A hot metal sheet drawn. A conveyor belt in the factory. Workers stack metal sheets. Workers in an aircraft manufacturing industry. The aircraft assembly lines, manufacturing airplanes for the war effort.
A war production worker in a tire manufacturing plant during World War 2 is seen handling a very large rubber tire. Tires are stacked as high as the ceiling in a warehouse. Closeup of countless artillery shells standing side by side with their noses pointing upward. Small arms cartridges spilling from a hopper. Rolls of ammunition being packed into steel boxes by women in a factory. Two army officers watch an M3 Army half track leaving a factory. Lower sections of M7 Priest Howitzer Motor Carriages built on M3 Lee medium tank chassis, are seen leaving the American Locomotive Company factory on a railroad. Their turrets have not yet been installed. One of them is marked as the 50 thousandth manufactured at that facility. M2 medium tanks leaving a factory. M24 Chaffee tanks driving out of a factory in 1944. M10 tank destroyers (3-inch Gun Motor Carriages M10) driving in a parking field. A field full of many M4 Sherman tanks. New jeeps driving out of a factory. A yard filled with parked jeeps. New B-17 bombers being towed out of a Boeing factory. One of them has serial number 44-6519. (Assigned to the 602nd Bomb Squadron, 602nd Bomb Group at Northampstead, Hertfordshire England, It was downed by antiaircraft flak fire over Nienberge, NW of Munster,Germany on 28 October, 1944.) Engines moving on an overhead crane in a factory. Wooden power boats under construction. A huge stack of pipes in an outdoor storage yard. Heavy containers being placed on wooden shipping pallets by fork lifts. Anti-aircraft guns being transported on a railroad train pushed by a steam locomotive. Numerous 105mm covered howitzers lined up with barrels crossing one another. Rows of parked Sherman tanks. Column of parked army field ambulances. A yard filled with parked army vehicles. Crane at work in an industrial plant yard filled with pipes and building materials. Petroleum workers rotating valves on oil pipelines. Men placing fueling pipes into open railroad tank cars. A rail yard fulled with tank cars. Another rail yard with numerous tracks full of freight cars and steam locomotives. A crane moving 55 gallon drums in a petroleum storage yard.
War equipment and ships built in industries of the United States during World War II. Crates containing war supplies from all over the world stacked. Massive large columns of United States Army Soldiers and huge columns of United States Navy sailors in review, marching and standing in formation. Men work on the construction of shipyards and ships in shipyards. War production workers work on different machines to make and assemble ship parts. A crane lifts a part of a warship to be assembled. Men wearing protective masks do arc welding on parts of ships. A line of ships at dock. Scenes of many different cargo ships, Liberty Ships, battleships, cruisers, submarines, destroyers and aircraft carriers launched. Some of the ship names seen include: SS Zebulon Pike, SS Patrick Henry, SS John C Fremont, SS John Fitch, SS Ethan Allen, SS Mormacwren, SS Irving S Olds, a ship of the Lykes Lines, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Bristol (DD 453), USS Hancock (CV-19), Men walk down the steps towards the ships. Men load supplies onto ship. Soldiers board transport ships. A Soviet cargo ship with a large flag "USSR" on it. A convoy of ships at sea.
War equipment and supplies transported to different parts by the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Animation of a map depicts the routes taken by the ships to supply war equipment in different parts of the world. Men load supplies on donkeys. The donkeys loaded with supplies walk through rocky terrain. An aircraft loaded with supplies in flight. A warship in the Atlantic Ocean. A soldier observes through a binoculars. An aircraft in flight overhead the ship drops bombs. Explosions in water as bombs are dropped. A convoy of ships. American soldiers land in England. The soldiers disembark from the ships. A soldier carries supplies out of the ship. New Caledonia : Soldiers march out of a warship. The soldiers wave standing at the ship rail. Soldiers march holding flag of the United States. Flag of New Caledonia and the United States hanging out of a building. Iran : A stencil mark of USSR on a crate shows materials arrived from Soviet Union. Two soldiers greet and salute each other. Two soldiers standing in front of a vehicle talk. Egypt : Soldiers walk on a gangplank to unload supplies from a ship. Trucks parked. A train pulls past the trucks parked. A U.S. aircraft carrying cargo in flight. A U.S. aircraft stationed. Animation depicts the air routes of the U.S. Army air transport command. Men carry aircraft parts. Men stack crates. A U.S. aircraft drops supplies in isolated areas of New Guinea. Men look skywards as the aircraft drops supplies.
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