Fleet of German Heinkel HE-111 bombers in formation over Soviet territory. Soviet fighter plane in flight. German aerial gunners at their positions fire machine guns at fighter plane. German pilot, co-pilot and aerial engineer seated in aircraft. Heinkel HE-111 bombers drop bombs. Bombs away. Explosions on ground. Aerial view of the city below, targeted by German aircraft, with explosions and smoke. (World War II period).
A band of African American soldiers give performance. Soldiers playing various musical instruments. 1917-1918, during World War I.
World War 1 U.S. troops greeted by YMCA volunteer women with refreshments upon arrival at train station in Koblenz,Germany. Troops seen checking out books and magazines and reading in a YMCA library.1917-1918.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) wounded soldiers being assisted by Red Cross and medical corpsmen during World War 1. U.S. soldiers gathered around a number of wounded lying on the ground on stretchers. A senior Red Cross worker, using a cane, makes the rounds, stopping to visit with the wounded soldiers. Several medical corpsmen, wearing red cross arm bands, accompany him. He gives a cigarette to one soldier and converses with him. He bends over another wounded soldier, holding what appears to be gum and such, in his hand. He chats with the soldier. Medics carry wounded on stretchers to a tree line, where a sign identifies a Red Cross Post. A medic unwraps first aid supplies from a box. The medics bandage the arm of a wounded soldier. Closeup of the wounded soldier. They give him a cigarette. Closeup of him smiling and smoking.
Houses, factories and buildings on fire before the arrival of advancing Nazi German troops in Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa of World War II. People set flames to their fields, houses, so that it does not fall into hands of enemy. Soviet troops dynamite dams and hydro power plants to halt German advance in December 1941.
Field Marshall Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus approaches and enters small building to meet with Soviet officers and surrender German forces to the Russian Army after the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II. Paulus in a room with Soviet officers. Long lines of Nazi German soldiers marching in snow under Soviet guard after surrender. They march slowly past bombed buildings in the city, some with no boots and various injuries. Wide view from a high point over the city of Stalingrad, with a dead German soldier in foreground. Scene shows spring arrival and thaw of snow in Stalingrad. Map shows 186,000 square miles of reclaimed Soviet territory after pushing back and capturing German forces. Various abandoned German tanks, planes, rifles and and machine guns shown covered partially in snow after fall back of German troops. Masses of defeated German soldiers marching in snow. View of dead German soldiers and battlefield graves with German crosses on them. Animated map shows failure of German forces to capture Moscow, the Caucuses, and Stalingrad, in years 1941 through 1943. Scenes showing troops from Allied countries including Soviet, British, and American, and the flags of each of their countries waving.
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