Workers enter General Motors Plant, Pontiac in Michigan. Overhead World War II United States propaganda sign reads 'This is Our Busy Day War's Working for Uncle Sam'. Exterior of the Plant shows flag pole with 'E' pennant and Ordnance flag. Automobiles parked in the compound.
(Audio only). News editor John Charles Daly reports on War Labor Board strike in World War II. News about protests and public hearing. President of United Mine Workers of America, John L Lewis put up demands. News about impact of Victory Day on production.
Newspaper office of 'Daily Telegraph' at Fleet Street in London, England. People buy newspapers. Headlines of the newspapers read 'To-day's Cabinet on Czech crisis'. Several men come and read the newspapers. People stand at the window of the office. Pedestrians walk along the road. Various newspapers on sale in the street.
German and Romanian forces of the 17th Army, evacuate Kuban Bridgehead, at Taman, in Caucuses, and cross the Kerch Strait to Crimea, in World War Two. German and Romanian Officers study a map. S-mines aka 'Bouncing Betty' and Teller Mines are laid and barbed wire strung to impede the Russians. A convoy of trucks carries supplies. Some of local population evacuate along with the military. People carry their belongings in horse pulled carts. Many depart on railroad trains. Romanian troops set off charges that destroy sections of railroad behind them as they depart. Supplies are carried to ships at Port Kavkaz on the Russian shore of the Kerch Strait. Men roll drums in a dock area. Supplies are also transferred on the German-built aerial tramway, capable of transporting 1 thousand tons a day across the Kerch Strait.
Soviet soldiers fight against Nazi troops and defeat them to regain lost territories during World War II. A map shows Soviet territories regained from German control. German prisoners of war (POW) being marched by Soviet Russian forces. Winter Palace, buildings, factories, arch, and famous landmarks and statues of Lenin and Peter the Great in Leningrad. The Narvskiye Triumfal'nyye Vorota or Narva Triumphal Arch (Ploshchad' Stachek, 1, St Petersburg, Russia, 190020) in Leningrad, present day Saint Petersburg. Tanks and soldiers on the street to face the German attack. Civilians including men, women, and children also dig trenches, erect barricade and build defenses. Soviet soldiers fire anti-aircraft guns at Nazi Luftwaffe fighters flying overhead early during siege of Leningrad.
A large number of civilians inducted into Army in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in World War II. They take an oath of allegiance. At Army Day celebrations in Guatemala Foreign Minister of Mexico decorated with a medal as American and Guatemalan troops march.
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