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Russian soldiers advance using sleds and eat in field kitchens at the Eastern Front during World War II.

Activities of Russian troops at the Eastern Front during World War II. Troops seated on sleds advance on the front. A snow covered area. A soldier works in a field kitchen. Soldiers snipe at the Germans. They have their meals. The soldiers come out of a tent. Some of the soldiers take a bath. A soldier smokes. A soldier combs his hair and gets ready.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062686
Russian troops fire guns, and dead German soldier lying on a snow covered area in Eastern Front during World War II.

Russian troops fight against Germans in Eastern Front during World War 2, in the Battle of the Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket. Russian troops in the Ukraine on trucks, horse drawn artillery and tanks move forward near Chanderoki. The Soviet troops wearing woolen coats and hats move forward in wind and snow blizzard conditions. The Soviet troops with horse drawn artillery advance on the snow during the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive. A Russian soldier looks through a cross shaped binocular device or range finder as another soldier stands beside him atop a lookout platform erected in a tall tree. A column of German troops advancing at a distance. A soldier looks through binoculars. The Russian Infantry troops carrying guns advance. The troops load a field artillery gun and fire the field guns. The Soviet field guns firing. Russian fighter aircraft fly in formation low across the front, bound for the German line. Troops near an artillery gun load and fire the gun. Russian Infantry advances. An officer looks through binoculars. The troops load guns and fire the guns. The Russian troops fire mortars. A soldier carries a shell. The soldier loads the shell in an artillery. The troops loading guns and firing the guns. Explosions on the battlefield as artillery shells hit targets. A dead German soldier lying in the snow. Animated map shows the Cherkasy - Korsun region of the USSR, Dnieper River, and Soviet troop movements. Russian troops firing guns and wheel mounted machine guns give cover for Russian soldiers advancing across an open battle field. Explosions in the background. The troops firing. A group of frozen dead German soldiers on the snow covered field.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675069369
A Soviet woman officer addresses troops on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Soviet officers on the Eastern Front during World War II. Soviet soldiers listen as an officer addresses them. The soldiers applaud. A woman officer addresses men and women soldiers seated in front of her. Another Soviet officer addresses the troops.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675066005
Soviet Russia mobilizes to defend against German offensive (Operation Barbarossa) in World War II.

Film opens showing Adolf Hitler, in World War 2, with Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Army Commander-in-Chief, and other top military members, planning for Operation Barbarossa (Attack to the East toward the Soviet Union). As he walks away from the table, he speaks briefly to Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy). Next Hitler and Marshall Hermann Goering are seen strolling and conversing at the Eastern Front headquarters, "the wolf's lair," (Wolfschanze) near Rastenburg, East Prussia (now Poland). Scene shifts to the Soviet Union, where Joseph Stalin is seen speaking at a podium. A large outdoor audience, including some soldiers, is gathered to listen. Images showing the Soviet people responding to defend against the German Nazi invasion. Closeup of Soviet soldiers with shouldered weapons. The nearest is holding a PPSh-41 submachine gun. Closeups of Soviet women and men in military uniforms. Soviet citizens heading to enlist in the military. Soldiers marching loosely n a city street. Patriotic singing is heard in background. A formation of Soviet women marching. Some carry furled banners. Soviet women carrying simple farm implements, marching in a rural part of Russia and joining others who are working to prepare anti-tank ditches and barriers in the countryside. Views of hundreds of people working on this project. Weapons being provided to rural Soviet guerrillas who will operate behind enemy lines. Anti-aircraft guns being set up overlooking a harbor. Closeup of Soviet soldiers manipulating controls on a camouflaged anti-aircraft gun and others maneuvering a four-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun. Local farm family members on makeshift towers keeping watch over huge fields of wheat. Soviet farmers harvesting the wheat with scythes. An armed farmer shielding his eyes as he searches the skies for German airplanes. Closeup of a man cutting wheat with a scythe as women gather the sheaves behind him. Motorized harvesters at work in a field of wheat. Closeup of a woman operating one. Tractors used in harvesting. Women and children gleaning what remains behind in the harvested fields. Farmers driving their cattle East (away from advancing Germans). Evacuating Soviet people employ a scorched earth policy, burning their homes, barns, and anything that might be of value to advancing German forces. Views of burning houses. Soviet industrial enterprises working around the clock producing war materiel. Seen are petroleum facilities; a large plant expelling coke; coal pouring into a barge; men at work at a steel furnace; ribbons of hot steel moving out of rollers; a huge manufacturing plant in operation. Next, a Soviet Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tank is seen moving across a field. Soviet Russian Polikarpov I-16 fighter planes in flight. A large formation of German Dornier DO 17 bombers in flight high overhead. Soviet forces retreating. Views of fallen German soldiers, fires burning, and remnants of a downed German bomber. German prisoners of war marching under guard and others surrendering with hands in the air. Closeups of some German prisoners. A Russian Petlyakov Pe-2 aircraft parked in snow with engines running. Fallen German soldiers lying in the snow along a roadway, in Winter of 1941-42. A Russian Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tank maneuvering in the snow. Russian Bt-7 Light Cavalry Tanks proceeding toward the front in Springtime, 1942.

Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046084
Russian and French troops on Eastern Front during World War I

Russian and French troops in joint parade on Eastern Front in World War 1. Russian commander and his troops present arms. Band plays music. French and Russian troops stand in formation. Cadre of French and Russian officers in reviewing position. French General Henri Gouraud, who lost his right arm in combat, at Gallipoli, in 1915, decorates a French soldier, using left hand only. Troops march on field. Army officers watch troops. French and Russian officers and officials walk together. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053069
German Stuka aircraft bomb advancing Russian troops on Eastern Front during World War II

German troops on Eastern Front. Soldiers in various types of armored cars and jeeps on patrol. Patrols meet Panther tanks. German 3SS Kubelwagen armored vehicle. Officers confer in groups. A soldier observes through binoculars. Soldiers walk on corn field. StuG III Assault guns advance and fire. Tiger tank of s.Pz.Abt.502 passes. Crewmen inspect damaged Befehls Panther tank and look over knocked out Russian T34 tank.. German Ju 87,Stuka dive bombers attack advancing Russian troops. Smoke rises due to explosions. A soldier points on the damage due to bombing. German aircraft in flight over the Russian jeeps and tanks.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675054006