Waiting room of a city hospital in the Soviet Union, during World War 2. it is filled with women waiting to donate blood. A nurse in white, calls one of the women, who follows her. Several women are seen in the donor station of the hospital. The women show some identification and are accepted as blood donors. One woman writes a letter that will be sent with her blood donation. A laboratory technician takes her letter. She follows him, dons on a white gown and mask and goes to a table where she lies down. View of her blood entering a collection flask. Technicians preparing the vials of blood by wrapping them and placing them in refrigerator containers for shipment to the battle front. The woman blood donor sits upright, removes her mask, and smiles.
Soviet Russian civilians meeting with Soviet soldiers, to receive weapons instruction and training in guerrilla warfare,during World War 2. A soldier holds up a RGD-33 hand grenade and explains its operation. Some small arms and grenades are distributed to the guerillas. One guerilla with several grenades hanging from his belt. Another holds a sub-machine gun. The members of the group all stand together and read an oath to fight until the last fascist in their territory is destroyed. The members , including several women, take their weapons and march off. Scene changes to a Soviet airfield, where aircrews head to their bombers. Closeup of gunner closing the hatch of his compartment on a bomber. Aerial view of a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in flight above a German supply depot. View of bombardier inside the aircraft sighting for a bomb drop. View from the aircraft of bombs falling away. Black flak clouds seen slightly below the aircraft. Closeups of pilot in the cockpit. More bombs seen dropping from aircraft and exploding on the ground. A man rings an air raid alarm as German aircraft are seen approaching his village. The villagers run for cover to the surrounding woods. Boys mount work horses to bring them into the shelter of the trees. Farmers drive their cows toward the woods for shelter. Local Home Guard militia grab weapons and ride off to circle the village in the woods. Some take up positions covered by boughs of trees as camouflage. Anti-aircraft guns raise their barrels in several places near a lake. Gunners fire a multi-barrel machine gun. A variety of anti-aircraft guns firing. A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft maneuvers overhead, ostensibly, after being struck by anti-aircraft fire. A plene crashes and smoke rises. Soviet gunner records the event in his log book. Villagers gather around a crashed German Dornier Do 17 bomber in a field. Some men are atop the airplane and others surround the cockpit. Scene shifts to Soviet pilots at their airfield, and then back again, to the crashed Do 17 bomber in the field
Film opens with exploding shells and bombs at a steel bridge and along a waterfront, during World War II. g. Soviet troops march in the street of a city. An open truck filled with soldiers passes the camera. Smoke rises from chimneys over an industrial complex. A formation of Soviet Polikarpov I-16 aircraft in flight overhead. A formation of Soviet Ilyushin Il-4 bombers in flight overhead. Closeup of a Soviet BT-7 Tank. A formation of BT-7 tanks moving across a field. Soviet soldiers with captured Nazi Swastika flags. A Soviet BT-5 tank plowing through snow. Cossack cavalry charging across a frozen lake. A Russian artillery piece Extreme closeup of a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in flight. A tank climbing out of a deep hole. A Soviet Lavochkin La-5 fighter plane coming in to land, with flaps extended. Closeup of a Soviet BT-7 tank. Battery of Soviet 85 mm M1939 (52-K) anti-aircraft guns. Soviet tank commander standing atop his tank, looking through binoculars. A Russian battlecruiser firing her guns. Formation of Russian warships cruising at high speed. Triple gun turret on a Russian warship. Large formation of Soviet soldiers marching while holding rifles with fixed bayonets in front of them. Closeup of Soviet troops marching with shouldered arms. British union jack flag superimposed over British soldiers marching. American flag superimposed over U.S. troops marching. A giant formation of warplanes in flight overhead. A Soviet soldier (sentry) standing next to the Red flag, with formation of airplanes aloft in background.
Sketches show Joseph Stalin and victims of purges. Enmity between Germany and Soviet Union. Flags of Allied and Axis powers of World War II.
United States 511th Parachute Infantry attacks hill 2380 in Philippines during World War II. Soldiers ascend the hill as smoke emerges from its sides.
Barrage balloons fly as anti air craft guns are fired from a destroyer in the Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Tracers fired as antiaircraft guns burst barrage balloons. Japanese plane comes in for attack. 5"guns aboard a destroyer fired. Japanese plane crashes. United States Navy SBD dauntless makes a landing on the flight deck of Yorktown, an aircraft carrier. F4F coming in for landing.
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