German World War 1 U-boat campaign accelerates in 1915. A three-masted schooner (the "Miss Morris Miss Morris, in route from Genoa to Malaga) slowly sinks in Mediterranean Sea after being attacked by the German submarine U-boat U-35. A German UB-III class submarine underway on the surface emitting smoke from a stack on the stern deck. A small one-stack merchantman sinking after U-boat attack. Slate refers to German food shortages due to allied blockade, and states U-boat warfare is Germany's answer. Another view of the German UB (coastal torpedo attack boat) submarine. Captain of a U-boat at his periscope. View from periscope of several Allied warships. A submarine slowly submerging to periscope depth. Naval guns in triple turrets of a British dreadnaught fire salvos. Explosion from depth charge raises large column of water. A torpedo leaving a bubble trail as it moves through the water. Starboard aft view of British battle cruiser underway. She has two turrets of heavy guns mounted on her aft deck and two smaller ones in sponsons on her aft starboard side. A British 4-stacker destroyer underway.
Soviet Russian Polikarpov I-16 (type5) fighter airplanes parked on a flight line. Engines are started and running on several of them. Next, the 12in triple gun turret of the Soviet Gangut class battleship, Parizhskaya Kommuna dominates a front view of the ship. This Dreadnought battleship (formerly the Sevastopol) was updated in 1928 and deployed in the Black Sea Fleet. Next, a huge open field is seen, filled with Soviet T-26 tanks raising dust as they move in formation. Scene shifts to an industrial steel plant, where a Soviet steel worker looks into a blast furnace peep hole to assess the state of the process. He phones others to tell them it is ready to be tapped. View of steel workers, in protective clothing, pulling the furnace plug. Molten steel flows from the furnace through open channels in the floor. Initially, slag floats atop the molten steel. View from an elevated platform in the steel plant, as the molten steel making its way along the floor of the plant. Workers shield their faces from the heat as they observe the flowing steel. Closeup of individual steel workers conversing. Molten steel cascading down to a lower level in the plant into containers (unseen). View shifts to outside the plant where several steel-carrying rail car crucibles comprise a railroad train that is moved away from the plant by a locomotive.
Soviet soldiers receive orders to attack German forces. They salute and walk towards T-34 tank. Soldier on motorcycle fords muddy stream. Soldiers climb into what looks like a T-34 tank with turret turned backward. Soviet armorer directs loading of bomb on a TB-7 bomber. line of TB-7s. Navigator with charts. Aviators flight planning. A Soviet Polikarpov I-15 airplane with engine running. Pilot climbing into a Yakovlev Yak-9 fighter plane. I-15 taking off. Closeup of large all-metal Soviet aircraft with portholes and windows in fuselage. Another I-15 taking off. Another pilot climbing into YaK-9. Closeup of I-15. Formation of I-15s flying low over ground. Soviet officers reviewing aerial photos. Soviet gunners firing a heavy field howitzer (Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider). Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun firing. Lots of field artillery firing. Aircrews planning. Several Soviet Polikarpov I-16 fighter planes in formation. Several T-26 tanks crossing a field and one crossing a wooden bridge. Russian infantry moving alongside a road and pulling a wheeled water-cooled 7.92 mm Maxim Machine Gun model 1910. A tank plowing through sandy hill. I-16 fighter planes flying above T-26 tanks maneuvering below. Soviet planes dropping bombs and tanks moving through explosions and smoke. View of bombardier in airplane. Huge explosion from a bomb. A Tupolev ANT-40 bomber flying through flak. Another huge explosion on the ground. ANT-40 aka Tupolev SB-2, in flight. More views of bombs dropping and huge explosions on ground. I-16s dive bombing. Tanks scurrying through smoke. Infantry following T-26 tanks. Smoke all around. Two I-16s in formation. Tanks laying smoke screens on ground below. More huge explosions. A Tupolev SB-2 speeding overhead. More explosions. A German Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe aircraft in flight (reversed film-Swastika backwards). Gunners arm anti-aircraft guns and fire them as well as quad Maxim machine guns. A burning airplane descending. Crashed airplane burning. Narrator states "Junkers and Messerschmitts" are downed in flames. Many guns firing. Infantry and tanks passing area in flames. Soldier crawling in field. Yak fighter landing. Skull and crossbones wiped from captured German trucks. German prisoners stepping from open wooden ferry. Others surrendering. German POWs being marched. Military records being unloaded from German truck. More German prisoners. Soviet medic treating German wounded soldier. Large amounts of currency captured. Soviet soldiers offering German POWs cigarettes.
Ex-Servicemen Strike to announce the condemnation of war in Paris, France. Thousands of Ex-Servicemen from World War I march in a stirring of parade with banners. They hold hands as they march with an anti-war, pacifist theme. Several people in the center on tricycles. Also disabled veterans in wheel chairs. Banners state 'Les Croix de Bois'. Ambient sound from the rally is heard.
The Lions Club International holds its annual convention parade in the City of Miami in Florida. Elaborately decorated floats from many States parade in the City of Miami. A huge crowd lines the parade route. Crowd cheers the parade. Women seen on the floats.
Newsreel 'Haitian crisis, Americans leave as war threatens'. Marshal law imposed in Port-au-Prince capital of Haiti as President Duvalier faces threat of invasion from the Dominic Republic. Americans are evacuated after warning from the U.S. State Department. Air crafts arranged for evacuates to fly to Miami. People hug and kiss each other as they part. Passengers seated in the planes. Several women and children are seen at the airport.
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