Battle scenes of German and Soviet forces during German assault in the Crimea during World War 2. A German soldier send semaphore signals from a lookout tower set up near their encampment. In response, another soldier rings an air raid bell alarm. Soldiers unloading supplies at a pier, hurry to take cover, as German antiaircraft crew get ready for combat. A fast-moving Soviet warplane flies overhead as German antiaircraft batteries open fire. Gun crew firing a 12.8cm Flak 40 gun. Bombs exploding in a line on the ground. German troops along a road, with some taking cover in a ditch. A soviet warplane flying past at at what appears to be 100 ft altitude. Flak 40 gun crew firing with low elevation setting. German soldier using binoculars and sky filled with smoke from Flak bursts. A line of bomb explosions nearby. German soldiers fleeing from burning vehicles hit by bombs. More antiaircraft fire, and a spotter with binoculars watching a Soviet airplane explode and burn in the air, after being hit.
Soviet scouts and officers line up in rows. Bands mark the opening of an award ceremony on the withdrawal of Soviets from North Korea. Vice Premier Hong Myung He presents Soviet Army and Naval officers with Liberation Medals. Several medals in boxes can be seen on the presentation desk. Scouts help in putting medals on each other. Hong Myung He awards medal to a Soviet lady officer. Awarded comrades congratulate each other.1948.
Soviet military officers gathered around a map, making plans. Soviet soldier watching radar screen. Rotating radio and radar receiving towers. Launch of a Soviet missile from an inclined platform launcher on the ground. The missile strikes an airplane in flight and the plane explodes as Soviet soldiers observe. The plane wreckage crashes to the ground and a large fireball and smoke come up from the crash site. A United States Air Force F-4D Phantom taking off from an airfield. A U.S. Air Force F-111 with moveable wings in forward position takes off and climbs sharply after takeoff.
Film begins showing ruins of the Bundestag in Berlin, in June, 1948. A tram rides along a street headed toward a tunnel through a destroyed building. Berliners walk about and eat at outdoor tables, enjoying the pleasant weather. On June 26, 1948, the Soviets established a blockade of West Berlin. View of Soviet soldiers in a line at a square in the city. A manufacturing business is seen being adversely affected by the blockade through denial of coal to generate electricity for it. The employees cover the company's equipment and close the business. People jam a corner store fearing a food shortage. Crowds mingle outside the main buildings of the Templehof airdrome. Some men hold a German newspaper announcing Allied intent to supply West Berlin by air. View of an American Army Air Forces C-47 transport plane landing at Templehof. A number of C-47s lined in a circle at the airport field as large trucks offload their cargoes. C-47 taxiing into position. German men climb aboard an open bus to start work at jobs unloading supplies from the aircraft. Views of the men busy with their labors. Glimpse of a "follow me" jeep leading a just landed aircraft to its parking place at night. Images of the workers dimly seen in the semi dark. View of the circular Templehof buildings. A truckload of German workers being carried to their work places. American pilots entering Base operations at Temlehof. Pilots inside Base operations, taking a break while their C-47 is being unloaded. They head out to their airplane to fly back to Frankfurt, Germany for another load of cargo. The climb aboard through the plane's side door. View of C-47 flying with clouds in the background along the Berlin Corridor. Ambulance seen responding to an Airlift aircraft crash. View of aircraft wreckage in a city. It is up side down with landing gear pointing skyward. The wreckage being carted away on a flat bed truck. German citizens gathered in front of a memorial plaque they had put in place. An Army Air Forces Lieutenant and another C-47 pilot look up as the board their plane to watch a four engine C54 transport plane coming in to land. Several views of C-54 transport aircraft in flight overhead. Airlift pilots are seen in a briefing room. Animated map shows Berlin as an "island" in the Soviet zone of occupation, accessible only by three 20mile wide air corridors. Several air bases in the Western zones are shown. Map shows Berlin's three airfields, Templehof, Tegel, and Gatow in the Western sectors, surrounded by a ring of Soviet fields. A line of American C-47s is shown on the map, flying from Wiesbaden airdrome, along a corridor to Berlin, from 9:30 AM until 11:30 AM. At 12:00 Noon the C-54s began flying from Rhein Main air base. At 3:00 PM the C-54s stopped and the C-47s began again. Illustration shows how the aircraft were separated by three minute intervals and a thousand feet in altitude. Closeup of a C-54 pilot in his cockpit as he starts his engines. The plane has "The Air Transport Command" written on its side. Inside the C-54 the flight engineer is seen at his panel performing engine start at the direction of the Aircraft Commander Pilot. View of the pilot in the cockpit and his instrument panel. The aircraft taking off. Views of cargo handling on the ground. Trucks carrying the cargoes to places they are needed in the city. Bread being baked for Berliners. Coal being unloaded from rail cars after being flown into the city, A crane operates in a Western sector coal yard. Smoke rising from some of the restarted factories. German employees punch a time clock. Doctors examine school age children. View of street cars operating on power generated by burning coal. Commercial vehicles operating on airlifted gasoline. Darkness due to power saving at night. But people arriving in the city by subway in the morning. Glimpse of C-54 overhead. Food being prepared and sold in shops. People patronizing a news stand. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, with C-54 in flight in far distant background. German workers sweeping the airfield ramp. An officer from Base operations arrives in a jeep to debrief a C-54 crew as a truckload of German workers pulls up to begin unloading their cargo. Crew members get food from a mobile snack bar the meets their airplane. A German worker who knew a pilot gives him a gift of a wind up musical Steiff bear for his child. The two pilots begin dancing to the toy bear's tune. The pilot places the toy bear next to the window in his cockpit. Back home, near Frankfurt, the pilot greets his wife, baby and school age daughter, whom he gives the toy bear. The next day, the pilot walks to the rear of his aircraft while en route to Berlin. He throws little parachutes of candy out a window for the children of Berlin below. Views of the parachutes descending and children rushing to retrieve and unwrap them.
Germans forces fight fiercely to hold the line against Soviet forces near Riga, Latvia in World War Two. A map of Baltic States. German infantry advance behind Panther tanks past abandoned equipment. A German Panther commander wearing headphones. Guns and artillery being fired. An enemy plane being destroyed by antiaircraft fire. A Soviet T34-85 tank destroyed by pointblank fire from a German tank. German Pz.III Beobachten, Panther and Tiger tanks advance. Ppanzerfaust, recoilless anti tank weapons and mobile machine guns in action. German Pz.IV tank fires. Soviet positions on Latvian coast being bombarded by German naval forces. Smoke rises due to explosion. A soldier on a tank looks through binoculars. German infantrymen ride on advancing Geman StuG III mobile assault guns. German armored cars fire on a village. A village in flames. Soviet tanks in flames. A soldier smokes a cigarette. Panther tank driver.
'Khrushchev's American journey' about Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Washington D.C., United States. An aircraft lands at an airport in Washington D.C., United States and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives on September 15, 1959. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower welcomes him. Khrushchev being greeted by officials and girls present him with flowers. An honor guard lined up to welcome the Soviet Premier. 21 guns being fired to honor him. President Eisenhower delivers a welcome note as he expresses his gladness on Premier Khrushchev's visit to America. He also mentions about the talks between the two leaders about unresolved international questions. Premier Khrushchev in his address thanks President Eisenhower for giving him a warm welcome. Mr. And Mrs. Khrushchev along with the President leave in a car. Motorcade moves past a large crowd in the streets. They get off the car outside the President's guest house where Premier Khrushchev will stay. Khrushchev arrives at the White House where he presents a memento to President Eisenhower as Vice President Richard Nixon and others look on. President Eisenhower and the Soviet Premier board a helicopter and go for an aerial tour of the Washington D.C. Aerial views of the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, U.S. Capitol, Key Bridge over Potomac River, local highways, suburban residential area and suburban shopping center as seen from the air.
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