Romanian Mountain troops parade across a field. Military band plays. Marshal Antonescu walks with entourage of German and Romanian Generals. Antonescu decorates Romanian Mountain Troops. Antonescu reviews Mountain troops in formation on a wet road. He is accompanied by German and Romanian generals, including General Avramescu, Commander of the Mountain troops, who wears a beret. Marshal Antonescu decorates Romanian and German soldiers assembled in a field, including a General who receives the Order of the Romania Star, which is shown close up. The General presents Antonescu with a large book. Marshal Antonescu boards a Junkers J-52 aircraft for departure. One engine cowling contains a painting of a Crescent curving around the head of a mustached man wearing a fez. The aircraft taxis out for takeoff. (World War II period).
The Battle for the Crimea in World War 2. Soviet armor and artillery and troops on the move in the Crimea. Soviet General Kliment Voroshilov and Alexandrovsky and troops board landing barges. The barges underway at sea. German aircraft bomb the barges. Explosions occur at sea. Russian anti aircraft guns fire from supporting ships. A smoke screen being laid. Soviet troops wade through water and come ashore. Soldiers enter ruined villages of Theodosia and Eupatoria. Civilians cheer and welcome the soldiers.
Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu, Military Dictator of Romania, accompanied by German and Romanian Generals, inspects Romanian Mountain troops, and awards medals to some in Crimea during World War II.
Film starts showing view from a hilltop of the port of Yalta, Crimea, during World War 2. A Soviet soldier stands behind barbed wire next to several street signs. One points toward Livadia (site of the Yalta Conference). A woman with a small child walks along a winding sidewalk overlooking the port. The Medved'-gora (Bear mountain) is seen in the background. A motorcycle with sidecar drives down a road. A Soviet soldier walks past destroyed structure. Camera pans over other destroyed buildings. Street scene showing three-story apartment buildings with porches, lining the road and pedestrians walking along the street and sidewalks. No motor vehicles are seen. Closeup of civilians standing in a group that includes several men, a woman, and some school age children. A boy in the group wears a military style cap. Children gather near a cartoon poster depicting Adolf Hitler with bandages on his head. Two Soviet men converse near the displays. Another cartoon poster with 1941 on it, shows Hitler and his cronies using periscopic artillery binoculars as they hungrily eye the Kremlin as a target. Below it in juxtaposition, with date 1945, is a cartoon showing Hitler in rubble, completely overwhelmed by Soviet military might. A woman with a boy and girl are seen at an open shop window where a woman is dispensing drinks. The boy is drinking one and the woman gets one too.
The Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Crimea, Soviet Union (Voronstov Palace Dvortsovoye Hwy, 10 Alupka, 98676 Crimea). Exteriors of the Vorontsov Palace. Tourists sit on benches in the palace garden. Busts lined up inside the palace. A fountain in front of the palace. White marble lions at the entrance. People come down the steps of the southern facade of the palace. A mermaid statue.
Map showing Crimea and surroundings, including Dnieper, Donez, and Don Rivers, and cities of Kiev, Kertch (aka Kerch), Novorossiysk, Stalino (aka Donetsk), and Sevastopol. German soldiers looking from a high point of land overlooking narrow body of water in vicinity of the Isthmus of Perekop, in World War 2. Romanian troops in summer uniforms with short pants, enter motor boats and navigate narrow waterways lined with tall grasses and shrubs. A shell or bomb explodes throwing water high in the air. The Romanian troops beach their boats and rush ashore. Soviet shellfire strikes a beached boat which explodes in smoke. The Romanians set up a machine gun and fire it with one man pulling the belt ammunition through as another feeds it. More scenes of motorboats speeding through the narrow waterways. Soldiers with boats at a small dock.