U.S. 8th Air Force crewmen place their personal belongings on a table and seal them up in pouches for safekeeping, while they are away on a mission. They draw their parachutes and other gear. Crewmen boarding a B-24 named "Big Bust." Interiors of the plane as crew settle into their stations and check their equipment. Pilots check their watches. United States B-17 and B-24 bombers taxi along the British runway. An officer on control tower balcony fires a very pistol and planes take off.
Map of Siberia and environs highlights the Urals, Magnitogors, and Stalinsk ( now Novokuznetsk) in Russia. Camera pans over industrial complex in the city of Stalinsk, Soviet Union, during World War 2. Numerous plants and smoke stacks are seen and narrator describes large increases in production and output to supply the Soviet war effort. Closeup of flaming coke being discharged from a coking furnace. Cooled coke being discharged into a large pile. Interior of a steel mill where workers have just tapped an open hearth furnace, amidst fire and smoke. Fiery molten steel pouring from the furnace. Hot ingots being moved to rolling mills. Russian steel workers controlling the mills. Large long ribbons of steel emerge from the top of a rolling mill. War production workers lift them up and place them back into the mill below the roller, this time, which then pulls them away in a second pass, moving away from the camera. Hot ribbon of steel moves in a circular path within a pathway atop a large machine. Men working at machinery with numerous valve handles. Closeup of a steel worker. Change of scene to a mine where a miner tends five drills boring into the ceiling of a mine cavity. He installs a shaft onto one of the drills. Small gauge rail cars transport ore out of the mine. Next, an open air copper mine is seen with Steam shovels digging the ore. A meeting of factory workers with a poster of Joseph Stalin displayed. A speaker extends thanks from Soviet leaders and from Soviet soldiers at the front. Closeups of speakers and listening workers. A woman operating controls to rotate a drum of crushed copper ore and empty it. Workers tending numerous banks of copper ore washing machines.
Soviet Russian civilians meeting with Soviet soldiers, to receive weapons instruction and training in guerrilla warfare,during World War 2. A soldier holds up a RGD-33 hand grenade and explains its operation. Some small arms and grenades are distributed to the guerillas. One guerilla with several grenades hanging from his belt. Another holds a sub-machine gun. The members of the group all stand together and read an oath to fight until the last fascist in their territory is destroyed. The members , including several women, take their weapons and march off. Scene changes to a Soviet airfield, where aircrews head to their bombers. Closeup of gunner closing the hatch of his compartment on a bomber. Aerial view of a Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 bomber in flight above a German supply depot. View of bombardier inside the aircraft sighting for a bomb drop. View from the aircraft of bombs falling away. Black flak clouds seen slightly below the aircraft. Closeups of pilot in the cockpit. More bombs seen dropping from aircraft and exploding on the ground. A man rings an air raid alarm as German aircraft are seen approaching his village. The villagers run for cover to the surrounding woods. Boys mount work horses to bring them into the shelter of the trees. Farmers drive their cows toward the woods for shelter. Local Home Guard militia grab weapons and ride off to circle the village in the woods. Some take up positions covered by boughs of trees as camouflage. Anti-aircraft guns raise their barrels in several places near a lake. Gunners fire a multi-barrel machine gun. A variety of anti-aircraft guns firing. A German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft maneuvers overhead, ostensibly, after being struck by anti-aircraft fire. A plene crashes and smoke rises. Soviet gunner records the event in his log book. Villagers gather around a crashed German Dornier Do 17 bomber in a field. Some men are atop the airplane and others surround the cockpit. Scene shifts to Soviet pilots at their airfield, and then back again, to the crashed Do 17 bomber in the field
Two American aircrafts tow two gliders as they fly across the sky in Aparri, Philippines. Aircrafts land at the air strip.
United States 511th Parachute Infantry paratroopers jump from C-47 aircrafts in Luzon, Philippines. Mass paratroopers drop from air over fields.
Barrage balloons fly as anti air craft guns are fired from a destroyer in the Battle of Midway in Pacific Theater during World War II. Tracers fired as antiaircraft guns burst barrage balloons. Japanese plane comes in for attack. 5"guns aboard a destroyer fired. Japanese plane crashes. United States Navy SBD dauntless makes a landing on the flight deck of Yorktown, an aircraft carrier. F4F coming in for landing.
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