Russian pilot shaving his face. Russian pilots lined up at fields are decorated. Shows Russian aircrafts flying.
Army reserves gather for mobilization. Views of soldiers showing their identification cards and are assigned duties accordingly. Young Estonian workers at Railway shops at Tallinn City walk out of their work place as a group, to sign up as volunteers in the Red army. They are seen sitting at a table and listening to a recruiter, each signs a document.
Film entitled: "Replace the Men," begins showing women at drafting desks working on technical machine drawings, during World War 2. They all rise from their seats, don their coats and leave. Next, a woman is seen in a machine shop, being shown by a machinist,how to use calipers to gauge the diameter of a steel part turning in a lathe. She goes to her lathe in a shop where other women are also working at lathes. Patriotic posters are on the wall in the background. Closeups of women at work on metal forming machines.
Young men stand in a formation in the USSR during World War 2. They are all wearing dark trowsers and white sweat shirts. At a signal from their leader, they all reach down and each picks up two simulated hand grenades from the ground. Closeup of the "grenades." The then run through woods and jump over a rustic fence. Some pair up and use their joined hands to boost others into the air and over the fence. They leap over a fallen tree and then jump down a steep hill and up another. They run into a river, wade rapidly across it, and climb up the opposite bank, where they flop down throwing their "grenades" as they do so. They get up again and continue running.
Shows President Franklin D Roosevelt making his 'Fire First' speech over the radio after the German torpedo attack on the USS Greer. (World War II period).
Shows President Franklin D Roosevelt making his 'Fire First' speech over the radio after the German torpedo attack on the USS Greer. He speaks that America will not allow Nazis or Germans to attack on U.S. Naval or merchant ships when they are on legitimate trip and at the same time will attack German warships if necessary. (World War II period).
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