Soviet warship's crew in formation on fantail. Crew of Soviet aircraft carrier in formal full dress parade on deck.
Soviet Naval maneuvers involving variety of surface warships and submarines at sea. Ivcenko AI-20M turboprop flying boat flies overhead. Soviet Naval Officers on warship bridge. Naval ensign flies from ship. Tu-16 aircraft flies overhead. Aircrew seen inflight, wearing helmets with goggles, earphones and oxygen masks. Seagull flies over ship as radar antennas turn. Line of warships maneuver. Officers in control room. Ka-25 Hormone Helicopters taking off from deck. Depth charge explodes.
German forces are seen jamming a road towards a Soviet city as they invade during Operation Barbarossa in World War 2. Some trucks carry infantry. Others carry motorcycles and their drivers along with their equipment. Several German soldiers ride their motorcycles on the road. The German troops are in camouflage clothing. Some carry M42 light machine guns. A long line of horse-drawn wagons, with camouflaged loads, takes up the right side of the road, allowing mechanized vehicles to pass to the left. Huge black clouds from fires obscure the background. A truck carrying troops passes the camera. German troops ride in a personnel carrier towing a 3.7cm PAK 40 antitank gun. With heavy black smoke obscuring much of the area, German gunners fire a 37mm PAK 40 gun. Smoke rising from artillery fire. One shell strikes a tall smoke stack, knocking its upper half down. View from breech as German soldiers load and fire the 37mm PAK 40 gun. Explosions and fire are seen in Soviet town across a river. German infantry hunkered down with white smoke rising from fire burning in the field behind them. Some are partway up a slope. Next, German troops are seen firing artillery pieces from a bunker on a railroad track. Infantry walk along a railroad track past some boxcars. Contents of an open rail car are burning in the background. They pass destroyed buildings and contents burning in an open rail car. A Panzer III tank rolls into a village followed by two tractors pulling artillery field pieces. German Army infantry set up a 37mm PAK 40 gun in the backyard of a house and fire at Russian forces from there. Troops walk single-file close to buildings as they enter deeper into the city. More PAK guns being brought in and fired. Soldiers moving through the burning city. Flames leaping from windows and doors of a shop. Everything obscured by black smoke. Infantry moving toward the center of the city, taking cover as they go. More fires burning. The German soldiers work to clear a building of snipers, who are seen leaving the building with hands over their heads as they are taken under armed guard.
Different types of high explosive bombs are shown in a Soviet civil defense film from World War 2. Bombs of different sizes are shown in a room. A Soviet specialist shows and discusses the bombs. A German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft in flight. The hand of a pilot at the controls, releasing bombs. A bomb explodes destroying a dwelling.
Soviet information about coping with incendiary bombs during World War 2. Views of Soviet city under bombing attack. Spotters on roofs. Antiaircraft guns firing and searchlights illuminating attacking German airplane. Incendiary bombs fall in several places. A man picks on up and throws it outside on the grounds where it burns without damaging the building. Others shown coping with incendiary bombs. One person throws it into a tub of water with bad result. Citizens are advised not to use water on incendiary bombs. Men shown using a special fire extinguishers on incendiary bombs.One man throws a bomb into a furnace and closes the door.
Soviet Civil Defense primer illustrating civilian protection and post-bombing recovery, in World War 2. Soviet antiaircraft guns firing and searchlights combing the sky. Animated view of German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber illuminated by searchlights. Scene shifts to interior of a bomb shelter where women and men appear relaxed. Suddenly they all rise and don personal gas masks. Persons from outside being carefully admitted to a special shelter through an airtight door. They are examined as they enter. Some are medically treated. Outdoors, workers in protective gear sprinkle material on hazardous areas. Citizens are permitted out of a shelter, while still wearing their gas masks. Hazmat teams decontaminate areas outside using water and special chemicals. They wash building exteriors and dispense chemicals from a truck. Recovery workers reinforce a building containing a bomb shelter and then work rapidly to clear away debris from the shelter doorway. Workers in a steel mill resume normal wartime production.
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