Opening scene shows view from behind Soviet artillerymen firing a light field piece in the heart of Berlin, Germany. Next, Soviet soldiers are seen scurrying along inside a building hallway. A solitary woman walks slowly along a deserted street. A rocket weapon is fired from a building window causing a cloud of white smoke to billow out over the street. Fires burn in buildings, as soviet soldiers run past them. A woman Soviet soldier tends to the wound of a male comrade as others stand nearby. (At TC:00:32, a Soviet soldier, with his head bandaged, fires a captured German Panzerfaust.) More views of burning buildings. Four Soviet soldiers carry a wounded comrade on a litter. A Soviet soldier enters a burning shop. Another Soviet soldier carrying a PPD SMD submachine gun, pulls a German Soldier from a hole in the sidewalk. The German prisoner lies on the ground and the Soviet soldier does, as well, seeking cover from gunfire. Soviet troops moving into a stairwell of a building. They throw the statue of a Teutonic knight in armor down the stairs. Views of explosions and smoke near the Brandenburg Gate as Soviet troops begin raising a red flag to the left. (From TC: 01:15 to 01:35 is a flashback to , German troops led by a military band, parading through the Brandenburg Gate, watched by German citizens. Momentary closeup of the German band and its leader, followed by a view of the troops marching surrounded by local civilians.) Scene shifts back to fires burning with Brandenburg Gate in background. Soviet troops loading rockets into a multiple launcher. More explosions and smoke. A Soviet M1931 B-4 203 mm heavy tracked howitzer firing point blank in the city. A Soviet field piece being fired. Glimpse of Soviet infantry firing rifles from behind a makeshift barricade.Glimpse of some Soviet tank crewmen. The Reichstag Building in ruins.Troops carrying the red flag climb the building steps and enter the building. Troops raising the red flag on a statue, as others cheer.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp after torpedo attack by Japanese B1 Type submarine I-19 at sea in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. USS Wasp burns. Heavy black smoke rises up. United States Navy officers and crew on deck of a different ship that is watching the USS Wasp. A man with a radio telephone. A destroyer ship. A bi-plane passes over the ship. USS Wasp enveloped in smoke from damage by torpedoes.
French International Air Show in France. Aerial view of the aircraft in the air show. Planes from various countries on display. Men stand near the aircraft. A huge crowd visits the air show. A sign reads 'Royal Air Force'. United States jet bomber aircraft B-58 Hustler crashes while landing. Smoke and flames rise in the sky. Largest aircraft Antonov AN-22 displayed in the air shoe. U.S. missiles exhibited in the show. Planes in flight. A sign reads 'Titan II'.
Soviet Union warship underway in the ocean. Naval officer announces alert. Sailors run to battle stations. Soviet Naval pilots rush on the flight deck of Kiev class aircraft carrier and climb aboard their Yak-38 fighter aircraft. View of Tu-16 bomber taking off. Radar antennas rotate. Yak-38 fighter aircraft demonstrates vertical takeoff capability. Warships cruising in a line. Formation of Tu-16s flies overhead. Soviet submarines cruise in a lne on the surface. Soviet Naval Officers confer in control room. Soviet Kara class (Soviet designation 1134B) Guided Missile Cruiser underway, with number "530" painted on its hull. Aboard the ship, a missile is raised from below deck into vertical firing position. A formation of three aircraft fly overhead. The ship launches antiaircraft missiles. View of an aircraft being struck and destroyed by missiles. Ships fire barrages of missiles. One ship is covered by a cloud of fire and smoke due to the intensity of the barrage. Depth charges explode off the stern of a ship. Flames and smoke rises up due to explosions. Splashes in the sea due to explosions. View of convoy of warships underway.
A steel girder flak tower in woods by Avril, France, near airfield used by U.S. Army Air Force , in World War 2. Barrel of 90mm gun seen moving at the top of the tower. A U.S. Army Sergeant standing on the tower with earphones and binoculars. Formation of U.S. fighter planes seen in background, as they start to break for landing at a nearby airfield. U.S. gunners handle packs of 90mm ammunition. A P-38 aircraft seen high above. U.S. B-26 passing overhead and another P-38 in the sky. A C-47 taking off from nearby airfield, and another P-38 overhead.
Fighter Operations of United States 8th Air Force Fighter Command in the European Theater during World War II. Pilot J.V.B. Hathorn of 504th Squadron, 339th Fighter Group in flight in a fighter aircraft. The United States fighter aircraft strafes an air field. Strafing of a marshalling yard and railroad cars. The aircraft strafes an oil refinery.
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