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Soviet military displays downed German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft and bombs, to the public in Teatralnaya Square, Moscow, during World War II
Opening scene shows Soviet people walking around an open air display containing a German Junkers Ju 88 bomber and various pieces of wreckage. It also includes displays of German bombs of various types (presumably inert). Closeup of the aircraft cockpit cabin and remains of engines. A huge hole in the plane fuselage. Wired panels and wire bundles inside the aircraft. Closeup view downward, of people pressing forward to observe the displays. Soldiers guarding the wreckage. Camera pans across the aircraft, showing the swastika on its tail. View from close to the wreckage shows the people behind barriers. Trams pass in the background, on front of the Bolshoi Theater, with the quadriga atop it (statue of Apollo riding chariot pulled by 4 horses) covered by canvas during repairs from earlier German bombing. Closeup inside the display barriers shows the German bombs. A soldier picks up an incendiary bomb and walks to people in the crowd shaking the device and speaking about it. People gathered at one corner of the display where smaller pieces of the plane are piled up. Another closeup of the airplane tail with swastika on it. View of the Ju 88 from its tail to the front.
Army reserves are mobilized and Estonian workers are recruited into the Red army during World War II
Army reserves gather for mobilization. Views of soldiers showing their identification cards and are assigned duties accordingly. Young Estonian workers at Railway shops at Tallinn City walk out of their work place as a group, to sign up as volunteers in the Red army. They are seen sitting at a table and listening to a recruiter, each signs a document.
Farmers in the Soviet Republics harvest crops to aid the USSR in World War II
At start of this film, grains and other crops are shown waving in the breeze in the former Autonomous Volga German Soviet Republic (disestablished in 1941,after German invasion of the USSR). Volga German farmers harvest grasses, using tractors and harvesting wheels. They leave mounds of hay on a field (Narrator says this is for the Red Army cavalry.) Farmers gather the hay and use pitch forks to load it into horse-drawn wagons. Closeups of them loading the hay into a wagons. A line of wagons loaded with hay moves on a path through the field. Scene shifts to Azerbaijan, where ripened wheat is seen in a field. Closeup of a man operating a harvesting combine. He and helpers move about on the moving combine. Closeup of him catching wheat grains in his hand. He wears several medals pinned to his jacket. View from above of wheat grain discharging into a truck moving in parallel with the combine. In another Soviet Republic, women are seen cultivating a huge field of sugar beets. The use metal cultivator tools and some bend down and manually weed plants. A man drives a tractor pulling a wide cultivator behind it. Closeup of the moving cultivator. Wide view of the field with many women workers (all in white skirts) cultivating the crop.
United States Army Air Forces conduct an airlift that enables Berlin to survive in spite of a of Soviet blockade in post World War II Germany
Film begins showing ruins of the Bundestag in Berlin, in June, 1948. A tram rides along a street headed toward a tunnel through a destroyed building. Berliners walk about and eat at outdoor tables, enjoying the pleasant weather. On June 26, 1948, the Soviets established a blockade of West Berlin. View of Soviet soldiers in a line at a square in the city. A manufacturing business is seen being adversely affected by the blockade through denial of coal to generate electricity for it. The employees cover the company's equipment and close the business. People jam a corner store fearing a food shortage. Crowds mingle outside the main buildings of the Templehof airdrome. Some men hold a German newspaper announcing Allied intent to supply West Berlin by air. View of an American Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane landing at Templehof. A number of C-47s lined in a circle at the airport field as large trucks offload their cargoes. C-47 taxiing into position. German men climb aboard an open bus to start work at jobs unloading supplies from the aircraft. Views of the men busy with their labors. Glimpse of a "follow me" jeep leading a just landed aircraft to its parking place at night. Images of the workers dimly seen in the semi dark. View of the circular Templehof buildings. A truckload of German workers being carried to their work places. American pilots entering Base operations at Temlehof. Pilots inside Base operations, taking a break while their C-47 is being unloaded. They head out to their airplane to fly back to Frankfurt, Germany for another load of cargo. The climb aboard through the plane's side door. View of C-47 flying with clouds in the background along the Berlin Corridor. Ambulance seen responding to an Airlift aircraft crash. View of aircraft wreckage in a city. It is up side down with landing gear pointing skyward. The wreckage being carted away on a flat bed truck. German citizens gathered in front of a memorial plaque they had put in place. An Army Air Forces Lieutenant and another C-47 pilot look up as the board their plane to watch a four engine C54 transport plane coming in to land. Several views of C-54 transport aircraft in flight overhead. Airlift pilots are seen in a briefing room. Animated map shows Berlin as an "island" in the Soviet zone of occupation, accessible only by three 20mile wide air corridors. Several air bases in the Western zones are shown. Map shows Berlin's three airfields, Templehof, Tegel, and Gatow in the Western sectors, surrounded by a ring of Soviet fields. A line of American C-47s is shown on the map, flying from Wiesbaden airdrome, along a corridor to Berlin, from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM. At 12:00 Noon the C-54s began flying from Rhein Main air base. At 3:00 PM the C-54s stopped and the C-47s began again. Illustration shows how the aircraft were separated by three minute intervals and a thousand feet in altitude. Closeup of a C-54 pilot in his cockpit as he starts his engines. The plane has "The Air Transport Command" written on its side. Inside the C-54 the flight engineer is seen at his panel performing engine start at the direction of the Aircraft Commander Pilot. View of the pilot in the cockpit and his instrument panel. The aircraft taking off. Views of cargo handling on the ground. Trucks carrying the cargoes to places they are needed in the city. Bread being baked for Berliners. Coal being unloaded from rail cars after being flown into the city, A crane operates in a Western sector coal yard. Smoke rising from some of the restarted factories. German employees punch a time clock. Doctors examine school age children. View of street cars operating on power generated by burning coal. Commercial vehicles operating on airlifted gasoline. Darkness due to power saving at night. But people arriving in the city by subway in the morning. Glimpse of C-54 overhead. Food being prepared and sold in shops. People patronizing a news stand. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, with C-54 in flight in far distant background. German workers sweeping the airfield ramp. An officer from Base operations arrives in a jeep to debrief a C-54 crew as a truckload of German workers pulls up to begin unloading their cargo. Crew members get food from a mobile snack bar the meets their airplane. A German worker who knew a pilot gives him a gift of a wind up musical Steiff bear for his child. The two pilots begin dancing to the toy bear's tune. The pilot places the toy bear next to the window in his cockpit. Back home, near Frankfurt, the pilot greets his wife, baby and school age daughter, whom he gives the toy bear. The next day, the pilot walks to the rear of his aircraft while en route to Berlin. He throws little parachutes of candy out a window for the children of Berlin below. Views of the parachutes descending and children rushing to retrieve and unwrap them.
Lady Halifax sponsoring a party on christening and launch ceremony of USS Natoma Bay in World War 2
Bow of ship. Lord and Lady Halifax sponsoring party on platform on launch of USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62). A man speaking on microphone. Spectators assembled at the party. Lord Halifax speaks at microphone. Lady Halifax near the microphone. Woman hands flower to Lady Halifax and crowd applauds. Lady Halifax cracks bottle and ship leaves ways.
U.S. Military aircraft and training prior to World War II
American military aircraft training circa 1940. A Link Trainer in operation at an aviation training facility. Used for teaching pilots instrument flying, it is seen moving physically in response to the actuation of artificial flight control actions as the trainee responds to instrument indications inside the mockup cockpit. It bears the number 654, on its mock tail. The wings and tail are for decoration only. Scene shifts to formations of various aircraft in flight over a body of water. The aircraft appear to be U.S. Navy types, including: Grumman F4F Wildcat; Douglas TBD Devastator; and Grumman TBF Avenger. Another formation shows many North American training aircraft in flight over the water.
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