A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.
Soviet soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War II. Exteriors of a building. An artillery emplacement. A trail moves past the emplacement. Soviet officers confer at a map. A camouflaged soldier amidst trees. The soldier runs across a field and fires.
Views about 10 months into the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2. Isaakievskiy (St. Isaac's) cathedral and other buildings on Vorovsky Square (Isaak Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as viewed from Mariinsky Palace. (They appear relatively unscathed.) The Monument to Nicholas I is in the center. Boats and ships are docked along the Neva River. Two youths stand atop a building and look at smoke rising across the river from buildings being shelled by German forces. Closeup of buildings being destroyed by German shelling. A small boy helps pick up rubble from the streets. A woman is helped to her feet by a Soviet soldier. Scenes of destruction everywhere. Broken windows, stones falling from buildings, an abandoned doll on a window sill. A dead child lying on stairs. A woman weeping. A young boy holding his hat in his hands and looking sadly in mourning. A mother with a baby. People standing about in sorrow and shock. 14-inch Soviet coastal guns firing, from under camouflage netting, at German positions.
Russian submarine underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A sailor on deck spots an enemy ship and races to enter the submarine so it can dive and attack. The engine room of the submarine. A man looks through a periscope. The submarine submerges below the water surface. A sailor draws a message to the enemy and a date on a torpedo, and the torpedo is loaded for firing. View of torpedo in water en route to target. Point of view shot as a sailor or officer looks through the periscope. Various control room views and views of gauges and dials and controls on Soviet submarine. View of German freighter ship burning after being hit by torpedo attack.
Soviet sailors manning antiaircraft guns under camouflage netting on Black Sea coast, during World War 2. Soviet pilot outdoors, shaving. A Hawker Hurricane Lend Lease fighter plane parked in background. Armorers installing belt ammunition in Hawker Hurricane aircraft. Man fires flare gun pistol on the field, and pilots run to their aircraft. A pilot climbing into his cockpit, wearing a seatpack parachute. Pilots closing conopies of their aircraft. A flight of 3 Hawker Hurricanes in formation. A lone German Me-110 in flight. It is shot down, streams white smoke and then, trailing black smoke crashes into ground and explodes. A Hawker Hurricane landing on sandy airstrip. The Soviet pilot jumps from his cockpit and is congratulated by his commanding officer.
U.S. Navy WAVES being inspected in the United States during World War II. WAVES lined up as their Director Lieutenant Commander Mildred McAfee and an officer inspect them. An insignia on the collar of a WAVE. The WAVES lined up.
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