Frozen battle field scene as Russian forces advance through bombed out German positions in the Battle of the Cherkassy pocket of the Ukraine region. Destroyed German tanks, artillery equipment, and German horses and dead soldiers lie on the frozen battlefield following battle. A captured German soldier is huddled on a cart. Piles of abandoned and wrecked German equipment. Soviet forces approach and identify the body of dead German Commander, General Wilhelm Stemmermann, who died with many of his forces after being encircled by the Russians. A long line of German prisoners, four deep, moving over snow under Russian guard in snowy and windy conditions. The Russian soldiers escort the prisoners. The prisoners cross a bridge. View of a snowy field covered with frozen bodies of dead German soldiers, some still holding rifles. A Russian officer addresses troops near Potchemky. The dead Germans are strewed over the snow. Various views of the wrecked German equipment and dead bodies of the soldiers frozen on the snowy battlefield. Low aerial view of the destroyed German front as seen from a Russian aircraft. Long line of destroyed German vehicles and dead Wehrmacht soldiers defeated in Battle of the Korsun - Cherkassy Pocket.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Yalta conference in Ukraine. American and Russian troops meet at Elbe River in Aerial views of destroyed buildings in Berlin, Germany. German officers sign surrender documents in Rheims. President Harry S. Truman, Stalin and Churchill meet at Potsdam conference in Germany. American troops fight in Iwo Jima, Japan. American flag raised. Aerial views of ruins in Tokyo. (World War II period).
German troops attack Russian positions in Donets Basin, Europe during World War II. A soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers carrying ammunition run out of a building. The soldiers run to a camouflaged artillery. A soldier writes on a paper. A soldier talks over a field telephone. Soldiers carry shells and load field artillery. The soldiers fire the field artillery. They fire machine guns and mortars to repulse a Russian attack. Damaged German tanks. Ski troops and tanks advance. A loaded horse pulled sleigh. Explosions as a field artillery is fired at Russian positions. Artillery mounted on tanks is fired. Troops fire machine guns. Tanks and troops advance. Wreckage on the battlefield.
Funeral of German Major General Adelbert Schulz in the Ukraine. He was killed, standing in the open hatch of a tank, while attacking Soviet positions in Shepetivka, Ukraine. Field Marshal Erick von Manstein lays wreath on the grave. View of wreath from Rothenburg Panzer Regiment. Soldiers stand near the grave. Soldiers give gun salute in honor of the General.
Life of people and developmental efforts in Ukraine, Soviet Union. Views of a village. Native men and women dance to the tunes of folk music. Buildings in a village. Church in a village (possibly St George's Church in village of Oleksandro-Shultyne, in eastern Donetsk region). Bank of the Dnieper River. Lenin Dam (or Dnipro Dam, later known as Dnieper Hydroelectric Station or DniproHES) in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, being constructed along the river. Boulders being loaded with the help of Steam shovel. Railroad cars carry construction material to the construction site. Huge hills being dynamited. Men work with spades to construct the dam. A huge dining hall for the dam construction workers. Cooks prepare food in an industrial kitchen that the narrator says includes American equipment. The workers eat the food. American and Russian engineers plan to exploit the natural resources. An American colony. Exteriors of the building. Children enjoy roller skating.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, in Washington DC, United States. During his address, various war production worker and war materiel manufacturing images are also shown (before the entry of America into World War 2, but during lend-lease production): Tanks, airplanes and flying boat aircraft are shown. Workers at war production factories making artillery shells and munitions. Scenes at a manufacturing plant building bomber aircraft warplanes during World War 2. They appear to be B-25 Mitchell bombers. Workers work installing plexiglass nose cone gunner shield. They assemble various parts of airplanes. Scenes of biplane aircraft in formation and diving. Large, flat landing barge filled with American soldiers approaches a landing area.