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Farmers in Ukraine save crops from invading German forces in World War II Civilians prepare fortifications and defenses
Three Soviet harvesting machines in formation cut wheat in Ukraine before arrival of invading German forces during Operation Barbarossa, in World War 2. Several varying closeups of the harvesting operations and the farmers as they work. Tractor pulls a harvesting machine. Closeup of farmer teaching his wife how to operate the machinery. View of her at the wheel. People (mostly women and children) gleaning grain from the fields after the machinery has finished. Soviet soldiers carrying long handled scythes walk past the wing of an aircraft parked in a field, to join those in the harvesting. A windmill is seen in the far background. Civilians and soldiers work together with hand held tools to cut wheat. Closeup of woman twisting stalks to form a rope to bind the wheat sheaves. Views of soldiers carrying sheaves of wheat. People gathered around and atop a threshing machine. Workers,using pitch forks, toss wheat sheaves up to the threshers, who push them into the threshing machine. A tractor pulls a many wagons filled with flour, from a mill. Complete change of scene shows civilians hard at work building fortifications. Several ensuing scenes show civilians sandbagging and strengthening fortifications in other Allied countries, such as France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and China. Soviet men with shovels digging deep antitank defenses. Many hundreds of Soviet women at work with shovels building defenses along a hillside. A cadre of Soviet women, in uniform, march under command of a military officer , at a square in Moscow. Red Cross nurses train for an emergency. One practices bandaging the arm of another. Several Red Cross nurses line up in a formation to march
Home guard cavalry unit training during World War II in Soviet Union
An old bearded Russian Cossack stands in the midst of a contingent of Soviet cavalry, seated on the ground, during World War 2. Closeups of some in his audience. Next, the old man is seen riding at the head of a troop of cavalry. They pass close to the camera, and then are seen from above, as they proceed along a dirt path. Marshal of the Soviet Union, Semyon Audyonny, is seen consulting with other officers. (Narrator states he is involved in training home guard cavalry.) Cavalry mounting up and heading out, past a fence where several rural people wave to them. A troop of Cossacks in Papaha (black Cossack hats) is put through their paces by their commander. He directs one of his troop to charge on horseback, brandishing his sword. The Cossack charges through a series of wooden stakes, swinging his sword at each as he passes. Closeup of one cut clean through. Final scene shows the entire troop charging in formation
Soviet Union builds railroads and drills for oil in Siberia during World War II
Views of Moscow, and the Kremlin, in the Soviet Union, during World War 2. View of snow covered mountains in the Urals. Map of Russia and environs focusing on Siberia. A pointer highlights areas where raw materials such as coal, bauxite copper, oil, and nickel are found. View from above of numerous Soviet workers in the Steppes, where blasting occurs during road building. Giant trees are seen being felled to clear the way for roads. Young men are seen at a camp, marching with shovels and other tools over their shoulders. Next some are seen driving spikes as others in teams swing iron rails into place for a railroad. A group of youth are seen shoveling sand into the road bed as a steam locomotive passes pulling a train of box cars on an adjacent completed track. Siberian engineers, examine a construction site and converse. Workers digging a deep ditch for a pipe line to cross the plains. A field of oil derricks and drilling operations are seen, with Soviet roughnecks tending the drills and pipes. . A pump operating and crude oil flowing. A camel is seen behind a roughneck tending an oil drill.
Soviet army, civilian guerillas, and Home Guard, defend against German forces invading the USSR in World War II
Soviet Russian civilians meeting with Soviet soldiers, to receive weapons instruction and training in guerrilla warfare,during World War 2. A soldier holds up a RGD-33 hand grenade and explains its operation. Some small arms and grenades are distributed to the guerillas. One guerilla with several grenades hanging from his belt. Another holds a sub-machine gun. The members of the group all stand together and read an oath to fight until the last fascist in their territory is destroyed. The members , including several women, take their weapons and march off. Scene changes to a Soviet airfield, where aircrews head to their bombers. Closeup of gunner closing the hatch of his compartment on a bomber. Aerial view of a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in flight above a German supply depot. View of bombardier inside the aircraft sighting for a bomb drop. View from the aircraft of bombs falling away. Black flak clouds seen slightly below the aircraft. Closeups of pilot in the cockpit. More bombs seen dropping from aircraft and exploding on the ground. A man rings an air raid alarm as German aircraft are seen approaching his village. The villagers run for cover to the surrounding woods. Boys mount work horses to bring them into the shelter of the trees. Farmers drive their cows toward the woods for shelter. Local Home Guard militia grab weapons and ride off to circle the village in the woods. Some take up positions covered by boughs of trees as camouflage. Anti-aircraft guns raise their barrels in several places near a lake. Gunners fire a multi-barrel machine gun. A variety of anti-aircraft guns firing. A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft maneuvers overhead, ostensibly, after being struck by anti-aircraft fire. A plene crashes and smoke rises. Soviet gunner records the event in his log book. Villagers gather around a crashed German Dornier Do 17 bomber in a field. Some men are atop the airplane and others surround the cockpit. Scene shifts to Soviet pilots at their airfield, and then back again, to the crashed Do 17 bomber in the field
A Russian pilot who rammed a German bomber, tells his family about it. Small children being tended for parents during World War II
Film opens showing a wounded Soviet army aviator lieutenant, at home on leave, surrounded by family members. He holds a microphone with his bandaged right hand. According to narrator, he is telling his sister and a girl he went to school with, about his recent experience. He was at 4 miles altitude intercepting a German bomber on its way to Moscow. He chased and fired at the bomber until he ran out of ammunition and the blast from his machine gun had burned his hand. So he accelerated and rammed the German aircraft, bringing it down. His mother is seen telling that she had heard the news, on the radio, of her son ramming a German airplane. She kisses her son. Change of scene shows small children in a play ground under the care of several women Next, children are seen seated at tables for a meal, as Girl Scouts attend them. Later, the children are tucked into bed for the night, and Two Girl Scouts make soft toys for them.
View of U.S. ships burning, and rescue efforts underway immediately following Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
View from a high ridge overlooking Pearl Harbor, with smoke emerging from ships all through the harbor immediately after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Ships burn as firefighters spray water to control fire. Hull of overturned battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Rescue ships afloat as United States Navy ships continue to burn. United States Navy battle ship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) in foreground. At very end of clip, light cruiser USS Phoenix CL-46 sails by on her way out of the harbor. (World War II period).
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