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Soviet combat film showing segments of the Battle of Berlin in World War II, including Soviet soldiers planting Red flag atop the Reichstag building.
Opening scene shows Soviet soldiers, carrying PPSh sub machine guns with drum magazines, enter burning building in Berlin during World War 2. One is seen dragging a German soldier from a cellar. The German soldier immediately falls to the ground and the Soviet soldier does too, to avoid gunfire. View from inside a burning shop as Soviet soldiers enter. Others climb stairs inside an elaborate building and throw throw down a suit of armor. A tank fires its gun. Heavy white smoke rising obscures everything behind the Brandenburg Gate. View of the Quadriga statue atop the Brandenburg Gate. Flashback glimpse of German troops marching through the Brandenburg Gate much earlier in World War 2. View of that same area now a scene of destruction and fire. Soviet troops fire a heavy gun in a street. Its shell strikes causing a large explosion and raising heavy smoke. Soviet soldiers loading rockets into a Katyusha launcher. The rockets being fired and striking buildings and creating fires. Shells being picked up to load a heavy gun. A Soviet 152 mm gun M1935 (Br-2) firing in the street. Other artillery firing in the streets. Brief closeup of two Soviet gunners. Smoke rising everywhere as Soviet troops carrying a Red flag rush toward the Reichstag building. They clamber up the steps of the badly damaged building, and enter it. Next, accompanied by several others, a soldier ties a Red flag to the Statue of Germania atop the Reichstag Building. Group of Soviet soldiers pose and wave tor their photographer. Another glimpse of the Red Flag waving vigorously in a strong wind on the Germania statue. More views of posing Soviet troops. View from the ground of the Red Flag on the Germania statue.
U.S. Navy planes land on deck of U.S. Task Force 38 carrier in Gulf of Leyte during World War II.
United States Navy planes land on USN Task Force 38 carriers in Gulf of Leyte during World War 2. CVL (Light Aircraft Carrier) underway. Formation of planes. A Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver airplane is waved off during approach and executes go-around before landing on USS Essex. Crewmen examine battle damage on wings and around cockpits of an SB2C-5 aircraft (pilot Lt. Roger Noyes) parked on the flight deck. Pilot in F6F Hellcat fighter (with four rising sun flags for enemy kills on fuselage) awaits signal for takeoff. Formations of other aircraft returning to the carrier.
Pastor of African American church congregation speaks about defending America during World War II
Opening scene shows a battlefield wooden cross marking the grave of Private Robert. Woods. His photograph is shown.The narrator is an American Pastor of a predominantly African American congregation speaking from the pulpit about men who served America during World War 2. He cites U.S. Army bomber pilot, Colin Kelly, whose photograph is also seen. The pastor also mentions Meyer Levine, Kelly's bombardier (unseen) and an African American sailor, named Dory Miller, who shot down Japanese aircraft while defending the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Miller is seen shaking hands with officers on the deck of a Navy ship. Camera focuses on a banner in the church displaying stars for the members of the congregation in the Armed Forces. He leads in a prayer of thanks for "this land which our fathers have helped to build." Camera pans over the congregation. The choir and congregation join in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Next, a large formation of African American soldiers marches in a parade. They wear uniforms including M1917 steel helmets, and carry rifles and field packs. Scene updates to African American soldiers marching wearing World War 2 M1 steel helmets. Scene shifts to African American Army Colonel and another officer reviewing marching troops on a snowy field. Next, African American women in the WAC (Women's Army Corps) are seen marching. African American troops are seen, again, parading in World War 1 steel helmets, and then others are seen parading in garrison caps. More views of these various groups parading with a glimpse of mounted cavalry inserted, as well. As the film ends, the background music is the singing of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
English Electric Canberra prototype jets take off from an airfield and fly over England
British aviation developments after World War II. A twin-jet English Electric Canberra takes off from Warton Aerodrome, Lancashire, England. The English Electric Canberra A.1 prototype (VN799) in flight. The first Canberra B.2 prototype (VX165) flies over the airfield. Crowds of British civilian men and women watch the first Canberra B.2 prototype in flight. The first Canberra B.2 prototype performs maneuvers.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspects troops of 320th Regiment of 35th Infantry Division in England during World War II.
U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower visits United States 35th Infantry Division troops in England during World War 2. General Eisenhower arrives at Exeter St Davids rail road station in the city of Exeter, Devon county, South West England. He gets into a car with a sign above that reads ' Great Western Railway ' General Eisenhower on a podium as he salutes to 320th Regiment troops of United States 35th Infantry. Troops lined up as General Eisenhower, along with General George S. Patton and Major General Paul W. Badde, review the soldiers. Soldiers in formation as General Eisenhower reviews them. (The 320th Regiment were based at Topsham Barracks in Exeter.)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, United States.
America declares war on Japan during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses Congress at the U.S. Capitol. He gives a speech recounting the attack on Pearl Harbor and speaks of American success to come in the war against Japan. The President signs the declaration of war against Japan after the attack of Pearl Harbor. A large group of civilians enlist into the armed forces. Civilian young men taking an oath of service. View of new military recruits marching on a dock beside New York Harbor with view of New York City Manhattan skyline behind them. Newly commissioned U.S. officers at commissioning ceremony. Group of citizens gathered at a memorial service in Hawaii laying wreaths and mourning the loss of American lives from the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz presents medals to men of the armed forces who had defended Pearl Harbor. A large fleet en route to Honolulu with supplies. General Douglas MacArthur at his desk working on orders and talking on telephone. Filipino Forces march in Manila. Massive heavy artillery long gun being fired on Corregidor at Japanese forces.
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