A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.
Soviet Air defenses in World War 2. Thumbnail of a barrage balloon superimposed on an animated illustration of a Soviet city. Various aircraft sensing devices plotted on the illustration. Animated view of German Heinkel He 111 bomber in flight. Illustrated Soviet industrial or military buildings with defense positions highlighted. View of Soviet citizens inside an air raid shelter. Women looking for food supplies. Men dressing in fire fighting uniforms. Animation of antiaircraft guns firing at a German airplane illuminated by searchlights.Citizens in shelters reacting to exploding bombs. They rush outside to render aid to injured and search for survivors. Ambulances respond. Workers begin cleanup.
A battalion of Soviet women soldiers stands at attention in formation as officers address them, during World War 2. . Change of scene shows one bandaging the arm of a wounded soldier. A shell bursts nearby. Several Soviet soldiers advancing in a field. Closeup of a Soviet woman soldier. Another shell explosion. View reverts to the battalion of women soldiers in formation. Closeups of several of them. The battalion members break formation and board open army trucks that will take them to the battle front. Views of civilian women and children behind the lines at home, filling parcels with cakes, socks, handkerchiefs, and the like, for soldiers at the front. Closeups of women knitting and sewing items for the troops. One little girl has painted a design on a box for the soldiers. Camera zooms in on the painting. Closeup of a package ready for shipment. In bold letters the main heading on the parcel reads: "подаркн боицам" (Gifts for Fighters). View of a package being opened by soldiers at the front, reveals newspapers and other small items. Soldiers reading an enclosing message from the senders. View of a letter, with many signatures on it. Smiling soldiers share contents of the box, which includes cigarettes
Film shows Soviet soldiers accompanying a deserting German soldier through woods, during World War 2. They bring him to a non-commissioned officer who examines his papers including one that had been distributed (probably air dropped) by Soviet forces to German forces on the ground. Written in German it translates to "Comrades, with this card, All German soldiers , who are on the side of the Red Army, are guaranteed a life of good treatment and return home after the war." A Russian translation of the safe conduct pass is then shown translated into Russian. Closeups of the German soldier defector being further interrogated as he stands and responds. He is then led off in a friendly way by the soviet soldiers.
Group of young Soviet women dress in protective clothing and masks. Two persons form seat with their hands and arms to carry an injured person. Men train to carry injured person with and without a litter. Soviet civilians manually clearing debris to enable rescue of persons, and learning to provide first aid to injured persons. Civilians practicing various bandaging techniques. Civilians, including younger boys, don protective clothing and practice disposal of incendiary bombs. A woman in uniform gives command for civilians to don protective masks. Men, women, and children, donning protective masks and clothing. Hazmat teams decontaminating an area. Volunteers returning their tools after a practice session. Russian women stocking first aid medicine and equipment. A man lowering blackout blinds and drapes at a window. Soviet policeman directing traffic and pedestrians. Young man in a lookout tower.
View from conning tower of Soviet submarine underway on surface.Officers leave conning tower and go below. Submarine submerges. Scenes inside sub, while submerged. Captain lowers periscope. Crewmen at duty stations in the sub. Crewmen walk through sub compartments. Captain takes up position at periscope. Missiles launched from submerged submarine rocket upwards through surface of ocean. Seagull in flight. Submarine cruising on surface of sea. Women smile and wave as crewman carries a pie (baked goods) carefully down the hatch of a submarine. Man closes hatch behind him.
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