A USSR woman writes to American women to speak about the importance of Soviet women participation in war efforts during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Hands writing a letter. A Soviet war production factory for war materiel manufacturing in Ural Mountains. Overhead crane moving inside factory. Molten metal inside factory foundry ladles. Factory workers shoveling coal into foundry furnace. A hot steel bar rolls on factory assembly line. Soviet women working in mines, swinging pick axes at mine wall. Russian woman operating a lathe. A Soviet woman assembles a gun stock. A Soviet woman, with a short Pixie cut hairstyle, aims a newly made rifle. Woman puts gun onto assembly line. Women make artillery shells. Rows of high explosive bombs, T-34 tanks, Howitzer artillery, made by Soviet women in factories.
A Soviet soldier recounts his wartime experience in a letter to his wife during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Armored train cars leave a factory in the Soviet Union. Hands holding a letter written in Russian. Hands holding a letter written in English. Soviet soldiers on the ground fire at German bombers with anti-aircraft artillery at night. Soviet infantry and tanks move across a battlefield. Explosion from bombs dropped from bombers. Tank reserve moving behind Soviet infantry. Soviet artillery fires from under a camouflage net. Explosion from artillery fire in battlefield. A rapidly deploying smoke screen. Soviet infantry cling to pontoon bridge while under heavy fire. Soviet cavalry ford river with artillery cannon in foreground. A burning village after being set on fire by retreating German soldiers. A Soviet soldier inspects ruins of a village razed due to German “Scorched Earth policy”. An elderly Russian woman crying in despair. Soviet soldiers take rifles from dead bodies. Soviet defenders killed by German forces. A Russian man rings church bells in victory as village is liberated. Soviet tanks fire while advancing. An advancing tank runs over trees in the forest while infantry trails behind. A tank advancing through a razed village, with infantry trailing behind. A clock is seen still running on ruined wall on fire.
Russian woman soldier pushes wounded soldier and rifle into trench as comrade carries injured soldier away. Soviet soldier fires from trench. Russians civilian refugees with ox carts and horses evacuate from a village. A city is bombed in Soviet Union. Aerial view of a city with heavily damaged buildings left in ruins from fighting Nazi occupying forces during World War II. German prisoners of war march under Soviet guard. The hand of a dead Nazi soldier, with a swastika ring, inside a burning vehicle.
A female host wearing an U.S. army uniform, reads a letter from a sergeant asking to hear news about Marshal Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Partisan forces. Yugoslav communist revolutionary and President Josip Broz Tito, also known as Marshal Tito, with some of his fellow officers, meeting with Allied officers during World War II. Josip Broz Tito with his loyal partisans at his mountain headquarters in Yugoslavia. One of the few early footage segments of Josip Broz Tito. A cameraman walks away as Josip Tito talks with others.
German soldiers wearing gas masks load a gas shell into artillery in the 1918 Spring Offensive (also known as the Kaiserschlacht or “Kaiser’s Battle”) during World War I. Soldiers fire gas shell from artillery. German soldiers assume “brace position” in trenches. From an observation position, German Emperor Wilhelm II speaks to German generals belonging to the Supreme Army Command or the Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL). German troops advance from the trenches, running past obstacles. British soldiers firing with artillery. Soldiers running as noxious gas disperses in the battlefield, with German soldiers in trenches. A French soldier uses a telephone under a tree during a battle. United States soldiers marching with rifles. French troops wearing gas masks fire with artillery, stacks of shells amassed alongside them. Allied troops, including French soldiers and American soldiers, marching in farmland. Bodies of German soldiers killed lying in meadow.
French generals converse over plans during World War I. French soldiers march during a parade. WWI propaganda shows a forlorn woman holding a sign saying “France”. In front of flames, a caricatured, fat German general sneers at Marianne, the personification of France. Marianne showing her wrists with chained handcuffs. French soldiers marching triumphantly upon their departure to defend Belgium upon German invasion. French infantry marching, ride in horse carts to the battlefields. French soldiers, animals, supplies, and artillery cross a floating pontoon bridge. Teams of white oxen pull French artillery into Belgium. French soldiers fire artillery cannon. Explosion from artillery fire in the field, with cavalry charging.
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