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Men, women, and children work to harvest wheat and build defenses in the Soviet union against German invasion during World War II

Film begins showing an armed member of Soviet home guard standing in a wheat field during World War 2.. Nearby a tractor is pulling a harvesting combine machine across part of the wheat field. The harvester is being operated by a woman. A man stands by her side. Closeup of that man and then of him and the woman operating the harvester. Many children are seen bent over gleaning remains in the wake of the harvester. They bring their findings to a boy who empties them into a large sack. Another girl empties a bucket of gleanings into the boy's sack. View of two men standing on platform of the harvester, where they are filling sacks with harvested wheat and depositing them on the ground as the harvester moves along. Closeup of the man and woman atop the harvester. Closeup of the reaper blades cutting the wheat. Camera pans to edge of the wheat field, where civilians are busy building defenses. Camera moves closer and shows the worker in deep ravine to serve as a tank barrier. This group are mostly men. The next scene shows women and girls shoveling earth. Scene shifts to men cutting a new tank trap. Others are burying wood obstacles into the ground. A woman is seen preparing food in a large kettle over a fire. She uses a large ladle to sample the food. Women and girls are working on the defense works in the background.Change of scene shows men placing large logs into the edge of a deep multi-level tank trap. Men and women shovel earth to the top of a log fortification.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675040215
U.S. Lend-lease aircraft being supplied to USSR by way of Iran in World War II

Film about the shipping of American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union, via the " Persian Corridor " during World War 2. It focuses on activities at Abadan Airfield, Iran. U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) Colonel Charles Porter, Commanding Officer of the Allied Abadan military establishment in Iran, stands with a Soviet Colonel, who supervises Soviet work on the field. With them is USAAF Brigadier General Macmillan., who was visiting the base at this time. They pose in front of a P-39 Bell Aircobra airplane displaying a red Soviet Star insignia. Next, ground crews are seen towing aircraft on the field, including a Douglas A-20 Havoc and a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. Mechanics work on several P-40 airplanes on the ramp. A North American Aviation T-6 Texan aircraft is being refueled from a truck .Closeup of ground crewman holding refueling hose over the wing of the T-6. USAAF mechanics conduct post-assembly checks on a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber and tow another one (Serial number 41-3225) from a hangar, to the Soviet side of the field, after completing its inspection. Soviet mechanics are seen checking guns in the rear cockpit of an aircraft. Glimpse of several P-40 aircraft and a T-6 aircraft on a ramp. Soviet and American mechanics working together on the wings of aircraft. Closeup of two working together. As a Soviet soldier watches, an American airman uses a paint brush to change the American white star on an airplane, into the Soviet red star. The two shake hands when the painting is done. Soviet ground crew push a P-40 aircraft into position for starting. A soviet pilot, wearing a seat pack parachute, climbs into the cockpit. Closeup of him as he nods to a ground crewman for engine start. He taxis out and takes off. Several T-6 aircraft on the Soviet side of the field are seen, ready to be flown away. Views of other aircraft being readied for ferrying to Russia. Camera pans over the airfield and the many aircraft parked there.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040217
Yugoslav troops marching through a town as civilians look on during World War 2

Marching Yugoslavian troops followed by soldiers of Yugoslavia riding horses. Civilians look on as the soldiers pass through a town during World War II. Soldier on horseback holds flag of Yugoslavia. Civilians gather to see the marching troops.

Date: 1945, March 24
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040265
Marshall Tito, with American and British envoys and his headquarters staff at their Mountain Headquarters in World war II

Film opens showing a Partisan Sentry posted outside Marshall Tito's mountain stronghold in Drvar, Western Bosnia, Yugoslavia, during the Spring of 1944, in World War 2. Views of other sentries on guard duty. A Partisan officer steps onto the porch of the headquarters and looks through a pair of binoculars. Closeup of a sentry. Scene shifts to Marshall Tito stepping from the main porch to a lower one, accompanied by American Army Major Linn M. Farish, American Liaison to the Partisans, and British Brigadier General Fitzroy Maclean, Winston Churchill's special envoy to the Yugoslav leader. Tito smokes a pipe, as he and Farish converse. MacLean smokes a cigarette. In next scene Farish is also smoking a cigarette. Major Farish removes his hat and tosses it over the railing (perhaps because Tito is not wearing one). Tito pumps his arm several times while MacLean removes his hat. Then, speaking to MacLean, Parish pumps his arm as well. Next, they are joined by Tito's Chief of Staff, General Koča Popović. Views of Tito and Popović. Change of scene shows a British military photographer upon a railing taking a still picture of Tito and his Partisan Supreme Command (cabinet and principal staff officers). After the photographer leaves, they remain together with Tito's pet dog, Tigar.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040273
Yugoslav Partisan fighters in uniform are shown as they gather together during World War II

View from above of men and women Yugoslav Partisan fighters assembling for the camera.during World War 2. Closeup of them conversing with one woman, not in uniform, who is a 21-year old Montenegrin who left school to join the Partisans. Camera pans across some of the group. Next, a closeup shows a young boy in uniform with a rifle, at left of the group, as uniformed Partisans converse with the Montenegrin woman volunteer. Next scene shows her holding a short barrel submachine gun, as Partisan soldiers show her how to insert a clip of ammunition. Glimpse of the group from above, again.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040274
Yugoslav Partisan soldiers march on city streets during World War II

Opening scene shows three uniformed and armed Yugoslav women Partisan fighters conversing as they stand at the corner of a battle-damaged building in Drvar, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, during World War 2. Next are views from above of Yugoslavian Partisan men and women soldiers marching in loose formation, in the town. View of them from the front as they march toward the camera, under a steel pedestrian overpass bridge. Closeup from above as they proceed through a rail yard, and then a longer view as they continue along a town street. Closeup as they pass the camera carrying their weapons. Camera focuses on their marching feet well equipped in boots. Views from the rear of the marching Partisan fighters as they pass by buildings toward mountains in the background.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040275