The Entente Powers intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and World War 1. Commander of Czech forces, General Gaida, and his staff, sit with Commander of U.S. forces, Major General William S Graves, and one of his staff officers. A wounded Czech soldier is carried on a stretcher, by U.S. soldiers wearing campaign hats and red cross armbands, from a railroad train car labeled Expeditionary Forces Siberia. The stretcher bearers place the wounded into a field ambulance.
An American Army brass band marches along Svetlanskaya Street in Vladivostok, Siberia, during the Allied Intervention in Russian Civil War, in World War 1. They lead a contingent of American troops, primarily elements of the U.S. Army's 27th and 31st Infantry Regiments plus some volunteers from other Regiments. They march on only one side of the street, allowing traffic to pass on the other. Major General William S Graves reviews the troops and salutes as the colors pass.
A U.S. Army Air Service De Havilland DH-4 airplane taxis away from a make-shift canvas structure, near a railroad train, in France, during World War 1. Aviators occupy both front and rear cockpits. The airplane displays a tricolor roundel on its fuselage. A machine gun is installed in front and bomb racks (empty) are installed under the lower wing. The airplane takes off from large grass field. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
German commando troops attack Russian positions in the Kuban Lakes area near Russian Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk, Northwest Caucasus, during World War II. Map depicts the area of operations. German commando units in motor launches raid Russian positions. View of a bay from mountain. The commandos load in motor boats and move through marshes and lakes . The troops wade through water and move on land to attack Russian targets. They fire machine guns. Commandos returning to their base, where several are seen at a pier with their boat, as other boats arrive.
Refugees at Irkutsk railroad station. People pass on by the railway platform. Policemen standing on the railway platform. Military funeral. Horse carts passing on by the street.
Opening scene shows German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel gesturing as he hosts members of a Japanese military mission and a Turkish military delegation (headed by Colonel General Cemil Cahit Toydemir). At Adolf Hitler's invitation, they are on a tour of the Eastern front and English channel coasts between June 25th and July 7th, 1943, during World War 2. Here, they are seen inspecting German positions and witnessing firepower demonstration on the Russian Front near Kharkov (also Kharkiv) just south of Kursk. They observe a German artillery gun crew as they demonstrate rapid firing of their field piece. Shells explode raising black smoke. Closeup of a senior Japanese military official. Turkish and Japanese visiters board two small open train cars driven by German soldiers on motorcycles adapted for the purpose. Following a pause, the scene shifts to the visiting officers inspecting German armor, including a small armored personnel carrier; a Tiger Tank of Pz.Abt.503; and other armored vehicles. They watch a Tiger tank moving along a muddy berm rotating its turret and 88mm gun as it moves. Another tank races past the camera at high speed, raising clouds of dust. A German gun crew, in a trench, fires an MG 42 heavy machine gun. They look up and camera focuses on formations of German JU 87 Stuka dive bombers flying overhead. Visiting officer peers through a periscopic viewing device, as Large explosion occurs in the field. German, Japanese, and Turkish officers converse as a huge plume of smoke rises in the background, capturing their attention.
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