A Nazi German Kriegsmarine battleship attacks a British vessel in the South Pacific Ocean during World War 2. Kriegsmarine battleship fires artillery at British vessel in nighttime. The following morning, the British vessel is seen listing heavily. German commander climbs aboard the British vessel, which is carrying American trucks and war supplies to Asia. British officer is helped down ship's ladder. Damage inside the British vessel following German attack. Rows of American trucks shown onboard. Fire onboard the British vessel. British sailors evacuate. Explosion alongside the British vessel effectively breaks the ship into two. British vessel sinks as German soldiers watch from battleship. Nazi flag of the Kriegsmarine in battleship.
View of a refugee camp in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) following the defeat of German Nazi invading forces in the Battle of Stalingrad during World War 2. Stalingrad youth emerge from refugee camp tents to work on rebuilding destroyed buildings in the city. Boys break mortar away with hammers to harvest bricks. Young men and women fix machines. Boys break apart a wall to harvest bricks. Aerial view of ruined Stalingrad after the end of the infamous Battle of Stalingrad. Destroyed buildings in Stalingrad seen from ground level. Map of Eastern Europe depicting occupation by Nazi Germany in World War 2, with the map of Texas superimposed. An animated hammer hits Stalingrad on the map. Animation depicts how the Soviet Union gradually took over territories from Nazi Germany.
Soviet forces capture German soldiers after the liberation of Bryansk in World War 2. A Soviet soldier finds a German soldier hiding in a trench. German soldier raises his hands in surrender as he emerges from trench. German soldier prisoners of war (POW), with their hands raised, are lead away from the trenches. View of captured German soldiers, some are injured, after their defeat in Bryansk. Captured German soldiers are made to march out of Bryansk, under guard by Soviet soldiers.
Victorious Soviet troops march after a successful capture of Bryansk and Stalingrad from German occupying forces during World War 2. Children joyfully running in field. A Soviet soldier smiles while holding a bouquet of white flowers. A girl shouts triumphantly to celebrate Soviet victory. Soviet women emotionally greet returning troops with hugs and flowers. A Russian mother wearing a babushka hugs her son after his return from the battlefield. A soldier hugs his children. A woman kisses a Soviet soldiers carrying a motion picture camera after his return from war. A mother kisses her returning son on the head. Eastern Orthodox priest leads a procession. Soviet soldiers marching. Lines of artillery fired in Moscow to celebrate Soviet victory from the German occupying forces. Spectators watching fireworks in Moscow.
A Soviet soldier recounts his wartime experience in a letter to his wife during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Armored train cars leave a factory in the Soviet Union. Hands holding a letter written in Russian. Hands holding a letter written in English. Soviet soldiers on the ground fire at German bombers with anti-aircraft artillery at night. Soviet infantry and tanks move across a battlefield. Explosion from bombs dropped from bombers. Tank reserve moving behind Soviet infantry. Soviet artillery fires from under a camouflage net. Explosion from artillery fire in battlefield. A rapidly deploying smoke screen. Soviet infantry cling to pontoon bridge while under heavy fire. Soviet cavalry ford river with artillery cannon in foreground. A burning village after being set on fire by retreating German soldiers. A Soviet soldier inspects ruins of a village razed due to German “Scorched Earth policy”. An elderly Russian woman crying in despair. Soviet soldiers take rifles from dead bodies. Soviet defenders killed by German forces. A Russian man rings church bells in victory as village is liberated. Soviet tanks fire while advancing. An advancing tank runs over trees in the forest while infantry trails behind. A tank advancing through a razed village, with infantry trailing behind. A clock is seen still running on ruined wall on fire.
Russian woman soldier pushes wounded soldier and rifle into trench as comrade carries injured soldier away. Soviet soldier fires from trench. Russians civilian refugees with ox carts and horses evacuate from a village. A city is bombed in Soviet Union. Aerial view of a city with heavily damaged buildings left in ruins from fighting Nazi occupying forces during World War II. German prisoners of war march under Soviet guard. The hand of a dead Nazi soldier, with a swastika ring, inside a burning vehicle.
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