Victorious Soviet troops march after a successful capture of Bryansk and Stalingrad from German occupying forces during World War 2. Children joyfully running in field. A Soviet soldier smiles while holding a bouquet of white flowers. A girl shouts triumphantly to celebrate Soviet victory. Soviet women emotionally greet returning troops with hugs and flowers. A Russian mother wearing a babushka hugs her son after his return from the battlefield. A soldier hugs his children. A woman kisses a Soviet soldiers carrying a motion picture camera after his return from war. A mother kisses her returning son on the head. Eastern Orthodox priest leads a procession. Soviet soldiers marching. Lines of artillery fired in Moscow to celebrate Soviet victory from the German occupying forces. Spectators watching fireworks in Moscow.
A USSR woman writes to American women to speak about the importance of Soviet women participation in war efforts during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Hands writing a letter. A Soviet war production factory for war materiel manufacturing in Ural Mountains. Overhead crane moving inside factory. Molten metal inside factory foundry ladles. Factory workers shoveling coal into foundry furnace. A hot steel bar rolls on factory assembly line. Soviet women working in mines, swinging pick axes at mine wall. Russian woman operating a lathe. A Soviet woman assembles a gun stock. A Soviet woman, with a short Pixie cut hairstyle, aims a newly made rifle. Woman puts gun onto assembly line. Women make artillery shells. Rows of high explosive bombs, T-34 tanks, Howitzer artillery, made by Soviet women in factories.
A Soviet soldier recounts his wartime experience in a letter to his wife during World War 2, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. Armored train cars leave a factory in the Soviet Union. Hands holding a letter written in Russian. Hands holding a letter written in English. Soviet soldiers on the ground fire at German bombers with anti-aircraft artillery at night. Soviet infantry and tanks move across a battlefield. Explosion from bombs dropped from bombers. Tank reserve moving behind Soviet infantry. Soviet artillery fires from under a camouflage net. Explosion from artillery fire in battlefield. A rapidly deploying smoke screen. Soviet infantry cling to pontoon bridge while under heavy fire. Soviet cavalry ford river with artillery cannon in foreground. A burning village after being set on fire by retreating German soldiers. A Soviet soldier inspects ruins of a village razed due to German “Scorched Earth policy”. An elderly Russian woman crying in despair. Soviet soldiers take rifles from dead bodies. Soviet defenders killed by German forces. A Russian man rings church bells in victory as village is liberated. Soviet tanks fire while advancing. An advancing tank runs over trees in the forest while infantry trails behind. A tank advancing through a razed village, with infantry trailing behind. A clock is seen still running on ruined wall on fire.
Russian woman soldier pushes wounded soldier and rifle into trench as comrade carries injured soldier away. Soviet soldier fires from trench. Russians civilian refugees with ox carts and horses evacuate from a village. A city is bombed in Soviet Union. Aerial view of a city with heavily damaged buildings left in ruins from fighting Nazi occupying forces during World War II. German prisoners of war march under Soviet guard. The hand of a dead Nazi soldier, with a swastika ring, inside a burning vehicle.
Allied soldiers firing with a field gun (likely BL 5.5-inch medium gun) during the Invasion of Sicily in World War II. Close up of gun barrel during recoil. Explosion with flying debris in a field. United States soldiers firing a field gun under a camouflage net. Explosion in a field.
United States soldiers move off road to take cover while watching for enemy during World War II. United States soldier arranges stacks of bombs. Bombs towed to parked B-17 bomber. Men loading a bomb into a bomb bay of B-17. Close up engine start on B-17. A United States Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress takes off from an airfield.
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