Allied powers intervention in Siberia during World War I. Czech Legion soldiers assembled in front of a building in Vladivostok. They march past a city gate. Snow on the roads. They stand in formation, for inspection, with their officers in front.
Czechoslovak Legion troops quartered in railroad cars on railroad sidings at a depot on the Trans Siberian Railway, during Russian Civil War (and World War 1). The Czechoslovakian troops exit from their rail cars and begin assembling. They pose with a large Czech flag. Former White Russian General Mikhail Dieterichs (Diterikhs), now Commander of the Czech Legion in Siberia, poses with some of his staff. An officer orders troops into formation and marches them away from the train depot, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets. Cavalry and horse drawn artillery wagons begin to move out as well.
White Russian troops on parade in the cold in Siberia during Russian Civil War. Large numbers of troops, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets, parade in formations on a snow covered field. A military band plays. A very large unit flag is seen containing the St. Andrew Cross and some type of Imperial insignia. A small contingent demonstrates bayonet use, as other troops stand back and observe.
Wounded Czech soldiers in Red Cross hospital at Tyumen, Siberia, (halfway between Ekateringburg and Omsk) during Russian Civil War intervention, and World War I. Patients lying in their beds. Red Cross staff start distributing packages to the patients. Uniformed personnel of the American Red Cross, pass out packages to the patients. Recovering ambulatory patients walk about posing for the camera. One playfully removes a pipe from mouth of another. Recovering soldiers from Czechoslovakia are seen playing chess. Doctors examining patients with severe cases of frostbite. (Note: The hospital was originally a private school and one of the most well built and equipped in Siberia. When asked about turning it into a hospital, the builder-owner, a Mr. Kolekolnickof, graciously consented. Physicians who served during startup of the hospital, included: Team head, Dr. Charles Lewis; Dr. J. H. Ingram; Dr. George Hayden; and Dr. R. V. Taylor)
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.
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.
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