Clip opens showing Russian Navy exercises in the Black Sea during World War 1. Two battleships underway billowing smoke. Battleships fire heavy guns. Russian sailors on ship deck disperse, running to battle stations. A First World War Russian naval officer on a ship deck looks through binoculars as a Russian Navy sailor stands beside him. Crew striking the colors as ship sinks. Turkish Cruiser Mecidiye sinks off Odessa in shallow waters after hitting a Russian mine on 3 April, 1915. The Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye, also sometimes spelled Medjidiye, is seen partially submerged off the coast of Vorokoskiy-Mayak, near Odessa.
French soldier comfortably settled in ruins of building, cigarette in mouth, smiles and waves at camera. French soldiers among battle ruins during World War I on Western Front. Destroyed buildings. French officers and soldiers stand about by cars parked at a wartime ceremony in which soldier is being decorated. Fade to interior of the Gem Theatre, in Brooklyn, New York City, where these World War I scenes are part of series projected on the movie screen. Woman playing piano at front of movie theater to accompany the movie.
Soviet civilian women are seen registering to contribute blood for the war effort during World War 2. They pass by a registration desk and are then seen in large numbers attended by medical staff who take their blood as they ly on cots. Both donors and medical staff are dressed in white and wear head and face masks. View of blood being collected in a flask. The women donors sit up, smiling, when finished. Physicians and staff consolidating collected blood in batches and packing them in boxes for transport.
Film shows Soviet soldiers accompanying a deserting German soldier through woods, during World War 2. They bring him to a non-commissioned officer who examines his papers including one that had been distributed (probably air dropped) by Soviet forces to German forces on the ground. Written in German it translates to "Comrades, with this card, All German soldiers , who are on the side of the Red Army, are guaranteed a life of good treatment and return home after the war." A Russian translation of the safe conduct pass is then shown translated into Russian. Closeups of the German soldier defector being further interrogated as he stands and responds. He is then led off in a friendly way by the soviet soldiers.
Film starts showing Soviet infantry walking across an open field, during World War 2. . Heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. Soviet soldier loading shell into a 120 mm mortar PM-38. Shells bursting near low structures. Soviet infantry moving quickly but cautiously across the area. Sounds of machine gun and smalls arms fire is heard. The Soviet troops enter area of several buildings. Change of scene shows Soviet woman soldier dressing and bandaging the wound of another soldier. Both are in battle gear including steel helmets. Closeup of the soldiers bandaged arm. More views of artillery firing from woods. Soviet soldiers processing a captured German soldier prisoner of war. Soviet soldiers enjoy reading a Russian newspaper. Soviet soldiers scanning skies for aircraft, through binoculars and telescope. Two German aircraft are seen flying low over the area. Soviet soldier signals for anti aircraft artillery to fire. A plane is seen diving toward the ground. Still image of black cloud from the ground is shown as narrator comments.
Door sign 'Post War Planning Committee'. Interiors of an office. Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land seated with the commissioners. Emory S Land, Commodore Thomas Woodward, Captain Ed, McCurley, S Duvall Shell, AJ Williams, R Horton and Wad Skinan in discussion. (World War II period)
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