Film opens showing a flightline of parked Polikarpov Po-2 training biplanes. Soviet military student pilots, dressed in flying suits, with helmets and goggles, . are standing in front of them. Some student pilots being addressed by instructors. Closeup of a student and instructor standing beside a Po-2 plane. Extreme closeup of student. The student climbing into the rear cockpit of the airplane, which appears to be fully instrumented. The instructor follows and climbs into the forward cockpit. Next, a Po-2 airplane is seen on takeoff from a large dirt field. Only one pilot is aboard, in the rear cockpit. Student pilots on the ground look skyward at the airborne plane. Aerial view, from another plane of the Po-2 inflight. Another view of students on the ground watching it. Aerial view from below, as the Po-2 begins some aerobatics. It rolls over and dives down into a spin. Glimpse of part of camera plane, also a Po-2, as camera focuses on the other plane recovering from the spin. Another view of students on the ground watching the demonstration. Another brief view of the aerobatic plane entering another spin and students watching from the ground. Aerial view of the plane in normal flight. View from the camera plane of the airfield below and then of the aerobatic plane in normal flight.
Citizens in the Soviet Union mobilize for war effort against Germany in World War 2. Joseph Stalin gives a speech on June 22, 1941. Newspaper printing press running and newspapers being printed and distributed to spread news about mobilization. Russian men from every village come forward to fight against Germany. Russian men on horseback ride to mobilize. Groups of men and women mobilizing in recruitment drives for soldier activities and war production work in factories and mines. Young teenage boys work in a coal mine so older men can fight in the war. Russians of all ages mobilized. Russian women and young boys with rifles. Russians guard their fields and cattle and watch the skies for German invasion aircraft. Russian old men keep vigil in fields.
German forces on Eastern front battling Soviet forces in World War 2. A map points places in Soviet Union including Kiev, Smolensk, Poltawa. Snow covered field. Soldiers fire from trenches. They move on StuG III Assault Guns. Tiger tanks of SS.PR.1 LAH advance. Houses and trees in the background. A soldier smokes and puts on his helmet. (World War II period).
German Soldiers fire at Soviet Russian enemy positions in a snow covered field in the Soviet Union, Eastern Front, during World War 2. Artillery fire at targets across field. The German soldiers wear warm uniforms in white camouflage for winter. They talk amongst themselves during the advance.
Civilians holding personal mess pans line up and enter a building. A Russian soldier, with rifle slung over his shoulder, stands outside the building and watches the men.
A Russian film titled 'Srazhenie Za Gomel' about the Russian campaign along the Belorussian front that liberated Gomel Belarus from German occupation during World War 2. Views of landscape of Belarus including trees, lake and forest. Cut down tree logs piled in field. Map shows position of Gomel. Artillery fired in the forest. Bombs explode. Soviet Army officer looks through binoculars. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's soldiers sit in trenches and fire. They bombard a high watch tower and it topples to the ground. They run in a field. Dead German soldiers. Sign board with city name. Soldiers enter town. Belarussian citizens, buildings and bridges in town. A document in Russian. Soldiers talk to civilians. Officers and soldiers shake hand. Bombs explode in town. Ruins of buildings. The town of Gomel.