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Soviets mobilize for war on the home front during the German invasion of Russia in World War II
A huge number of local men, volunteering to join the Red Army, are seen parading (in civilian clothes) through a Soviet town, in 1941, during time of the World War 2 German invasion of the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa. Men lined up at an outdoor recruiting station where Army officers and a clerk are seated at a table. View of a man signing his name and date of birth a sheet of paper. Next, he shakes hands with all the recruiters. Next, recruits are seen walking in loose formation. They are still in civilian clothes, but carry sacks with their first government- issued belongings. Change of scene shows workers in a factory and miners working in a coal mine. they use a machine driven conveyor to move chunks of coal from the mine. Scientists at work. The man at extreme right is Soviet Nobel Laureate Physicist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Peter Kapitza). He heads the Department of Oxygen Industry. attached to the USSR Council of Ministers. Oxygen bubbles in a scientific glass device. Several views of fiery molten steel flowing in a steel mill. Older retired man back at work in a machine shop, operating a milling machine, to help the war effort. A man using calipers as he instructs a woman in a machine shop. Closeups of a young women working on various machines in the shop. One at a lathe, stops to inspect a piece of turned steel she is making. A man hot forging a part on a drop forge. A woman monitoring machinery controlling the forge. Women from rural areas in the Ukraine, attend a class to learn about tractors. Instructor using a large illustration to explain parts of a tractor. One of the women manipulates a tractor part. Another adjusts a carburetor. One closes the side hood of a tractor. One woman gets behind the wheel of a tractor, for the first time.Her instructor manipulates its gears as they drive it forward. A line of school children walks in a village with their teachers. Next, the girls are seen cultivating crops on a truck farm, and the boys are seen working in a wheat field. Three boys are assigned "Sentry Duty" and climb wooden towers to maintain lookout for invading German paratroops or other forces. An older man performing similar duties on a rooftop in a village. Another man on the lookout atop a wooden tower. An old man with a rifle on the lookout. Another man holding a rifle in a wheat field.
Aftermath of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War 2; Recovery of Japanese B5N2 torpedo bomber and one Japanese crewman
Aftermath of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during World War II. Approximately one week after the December 7, 1941 attack, this is a view of a Japanese crewmember from his torpedo bomber floating face down in the water. He was the radioman (gunner) on the aircraft which was downed in Southeast Loch by antiaircraft fire: Nito Hiko Heiso (Petty Officer Second Class) Yoshiharu Machimoto. Prior to this opening image, a U.S. diver had cut the harness from Machimoto in the still submerged aircraft, and his body had risen to the surface, losing his boots in the process. The mangled wreckage of the recovered Japanese torpedo bomber, a Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" (AII-356 serial 3178) from the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga, is seen hoisted on a crane, dangling in the air.
Igor Sikorsky piloting VS-300 helicopter sets a new record for suspension flight; scenes of various experimental aircraft.
Shows Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter taking off vertically and in flight. Clip includes early helicopters, early Ornithopters, and Igor Sikorsky piloting VS-300 on May 6, 1941, setting a new record of one hour and thirty two minutes for suspension flight. Scene after Sikorsky helicopter flight shows some experimental aircraft designs, early in the history of flight, including a helicopter design in the 1920s that would not rise, a windmill type airplane, and an airplane design with concentric circle wings. Next is seen an aircraft ornithopter with flapping wings. Scene returns to more shots of Sikorsky in his record breaking helicopter flight.
Pre World War 2, Major General Jonathan Wainwright and U.S. and Filipino troops in training at Clark Field
U.S. Army mechanics and pilots sleeping in hangar at Clark Field, Pampanga, Philippines in 1941 (before World War 2). P-26 and B-10 aircraft on field taking off and in flight. Local native civilians admire the aircraft. Army officer fixing a notice on notice board outside barracks and Filipino soldiers standing in formation. Major General Jonathan Wainwright talking to other officer nears a river. Men tying military equipment with cloth piece and bamboo. View of them floating equipment across body of water. Water buffalo (carabao) and Philippine troops doing river fording exercises. U.S. aircraft flying overhead and Filipino troops perform live fire practice drills, preparing for future warfare.
P-40 aircraft peeling off, diving, and performing aerobatics in flight over Hawaii.
Views of 18 U.S. Army Curtiss-Wright P-40B aircraft (sometimes termed Tomahawk or Warhawk, though Warhawk properly applies to later variants than these) from Pursuit Squadrons at Wheeler Field, in formation flight over Hawaii. They are filmed from an airborne B-17D Flying Fortress. The P-40s peel off, one at a time. One P-40 performs aerobatics, executing two rapid rolls for the camera. During those rolls it is evident that, in addition to fuselage insignia, the aircraft displays national insignia only on its lower right and its upper left wings, in accordance with a scheme adopted in February, 1941. Footage is from before America's entry into World War 2.
Soviet Union reacts to German attack as Stalin calls for national effort to defend against Nazi aggression in World War II.
Film begins with picture of famous Soviet statue of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman holding hammer and sickle, respectively, over their heads. The title,"View of the World Soviet," is superimposed. A slate gives a title in English: "Stalin Says the Word." Soviet civilians are seen lined up buying newspapers containing Stalin's call for all-out war following the German attack against the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, in World War 2. They read newspapers in the streets. Picture of Joseph Stalin can be seen in newspaper held by one man as others look on with him. People reading copies of the newspaper posted at an outdoor display with Pravda (Russian: “Truth”) written above it. Civilians reading outdoors in various places. A slate appears reading: "Wrath of the People." Camera pans across a mass of workers gathered at the Stalingrad Tractor plant. Local leaders address the crowd passionately about the need for a national defense against German aggression.