Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu, Military Dictator of Romania, arrives by Junkers J-52 aircraft, to inspect troops on the Eastern Front. He is greeted by Romanian General Avramescu, Commander of Mountain Troops. Accompanied by German and Romanian Generals, he reviews troops in the snow. He speaks to individual soldiers and examines the winter coat of one. (World War II period).
Marshal Ion Victor Antonescu, Military Dictator of Romania, inspects Romanian and German troops, equipment, small arms, machine guns, horses,and a 75mm artillery piece. Among the Romanian and German generals present is General Avramescu, Commander of Romanian Mountain Troops in World War II.
Frozen bodies of numerous dead Turkish soldiers line a mountain road in Sarikamish. They fell victim to the opposing Russian Forces and the severe cold weather, during the World War 1, Caucasus Campaign Battle of Sarikamish (part of Russian Armenia at that time).
View from a hilltop overlooking a snow-covered landscape and village in the Caucuses in World War 1. Russian troops are seen moving along a distant road in horse-drawn wagons. Frozen bodies of several Russian civilians are seen in snow, on the hill. A dog tugs at a frozen horse limb protruding from a pile of snow.
Soviet troops at the Black Sea front during World War II. Russian soldiers carry shells and supply boxes as they prepare to resist an attack by Nazi Panzer units. Sand bags piled up. Soldiers ride horses. Soviets fire artillery at German positions. A soldier looks through binoculars. Soviet infantrymen move across a field and attack German forces. They bring back a captured Nazi Pz.III Ausf.N tank as a prize.
German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II. Nazi officers look at a map and discuss plans for attack on Soviet positions. A German reconnaissance plane takes off from an air base. German Stug III Assault Gun being re-armed. Nazi soldiers loaded on Panther tanks advance, with a Sdkfz.251halftrack in Kursk markings, to the battle field. SS commander in Sdkfz.222 armored car. Pz.IV tank of 2.Pz.Div. ("Das Reich") with skirts operating in village. Heavy firing takes place. StuH42 105mm artillery mounted on tank fired. Explosions occur and smoke rises.