Views of war games in Louisiana as American forces train for World War 2. Aircraft A-24 and A-20 dive bombing simulated invading forces. Cockpit point of view of pilot looking out as he simulates low dive bombing and strafing of a mechanized line. Troops, tanks and jeeps crossing pontoon bridge that spans the Sabine River. Jeeps are floated over the river using boat outriggers paddled by soldiers. Army tanks advancing through simulated artillery fire. Bombers overhead. Army forces in defensive positions during the training exercise held in Louisiana.
British Royal Air Force Pilots marching and receiving insignia as part of graduation exercises at War Eagle Field in California. AT-6 aircraft takes off. The pilots received training in the United States before returning to the battle front against Germany, early in World War 2.
View at ammunition factory in Canada during World War II. Dr. Lu Shumin, Republic of China's Ambassador to Canada, sees small arms ammunition and tanks manufactured by Canadian women and men. A Canadian Chinese woman working at the ammunitions factory. Canadian Chinese woman talks to the Chinese ambassador. A Canadian Ram cruiser tank in production. Dr. Lu Shumin rides the Ram tank. Shows women workers in war production factory and tanks being tested in the snow.
Opening slate states (in Russian) "Replacement of those who left for the front." Russian boys work in a machine shop during World War 2. One operates a large drill press. A woman tends a lathe. Closeup of a young man using drill press to drill holes in a steel plate. Closeup of a women measuring a piece of metal in a lathe. Another woman turning items on a lathe with cooling lubricant spraying over the cutting point. She removes the finished product and places it on a table with others. A woman using a gauge to check dimensions of a turned piece of metal, possibly for war armament production . A young man consults with a woman at a lathe. Another woman also working at a lathe. A man and two women examining finished products on a table.
Opening scene shows Soviet infantry moving across a field, near a parked, heavily camouflaged Soviet T-28 medium tank. during World War 2. Closeup of T-28 tank covered in straw, and another in the open in the field in the background. Several views of Soviet heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. heavily camouflaged Soviet army trucks moving along a road. Closeup of a wide track Soviet assault tank with offset gun, passing on the road. Soviet soldiers unloading boxes of ammunition. Four Soviet aviators conversing. Airmen loading bombs aboard a Soviet aircraft. Soviet pilots confer before start of mission. They then proceed to their aircraft. One climbs into open cockpit of a Polikarpov I-16 fighter aircraft. A Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Closeup of soviet pilot in open cockpit of a MiG-1 fighter plane. Various views of two MiG-1 aircraft with engine running, as they taxis out and take off. View from ground of the two aircraft in flight overhead. A Soviet soldier with binoculars spotting aircraft overhead. Views from aircraft dropping bombs. View from ground of bombs bursting , raising huge clouds. Glimpse, again, of spotter with binoculars. smoke rising from crashed aircraft. Closeup of remains of destroyed German airplane. Aerial view of a Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber dropping bombs on an enemy held airfield. Closeup of gloved hand of pilot in cockpit, releasing bombs. Glimpse from inside the aircraft as bombs fall. Explosions ans smoke from exploding bombs. Fighter planes inflight overhead. Black smoke rising from crashed burning German airplane. Several crashed German planes. Camera pans over wreckage. Body of a German aviator lies on ground next to one wreck. Soviet soldiers examine wreckage and remove parts from some planes. Two stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft taxiing across a field. Pilots climbing out of their cockpits. Pilot sliding down the wing of a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka aircraft. Another SB-2 shuts engines down and a bemedaled Hero of the Soviet Union pilot climbs down from the cockpit and embraces a wounded aviator standing nearby. Scene shifts to German prisoners of war being escorted by armed Soviet soldiers. German prisoners being processed at a camp. A truckload of German prisoners, some ambulatory wounded, are brought to a processing camp. Closeups of several in prison camp.
Film begins with picture of famous Soviet statue of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman holding hammer and sickle, respectively, over their heads. The title,"View of the World Soviet," is superimposed. A slate gives a title in English: "Stalin Says the Word." Soviet civilians are seen lined up buying newspapers containing Stalin's call for all-out war following the German attack against the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, in World War 2. They read newspapers in the streets. Picture of Joseph Stalin can be seen in newspaper held by one man as others look on with him. People reading copies of the newspaper posted at an outdoor display with Pravda (Russian: “Truth”) written above it. Civilians reading outdoors in various places. A slate appears reading: "Wrath of the People." Camera pans across a mass of workers gathered at the Stalingrad Tractor plant. Local leaders address the crowd passionately about the need for a national defense against German aggression.
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