German commando troops attack Russian positions in the Kuban Lakes area near Russian Black Sea Port of Novorossiysk, Northwest Caucasus, during World War II. Map depicts the area of operations. German commando units in motor launches raid Russian positions. View of a bay from mountain. The commandos load in motor boats and move through marshes and lakes . The troops wade through water and move on land to attack Russian targets. They fire machine guns. Commandos returning to their base, where several are seen at a pier with their boat, as other boats arrive.
German and Romanian 17th Army troops employ antiaircraft fire against Soviet air attacks, during their evacuation from the Kuban Bridgehead, on Taman Penninsula. A soldier on a tower raises warning signal flags. A soldier rings a bell. Anti aircraft guns are fired at Soviet aircraft attacking an evacuation point. German and Romanian troops in a trench. A Soviet aircraft flies low. A soldiers looks through binoculars. A Soviet aircraft is hit and pilot parachutes into the Sea of Azov. Barges carrying troops and material cross the Kerch Strait. German and Romanian Stuka aircraft drop bombs on Soviet targets in the Taman Penninsula. (World War II period).
Refugees at Irkutsk railroad station. People pass on by the railway platform. Policemen standing on the railway platform. Military funeral. Horse carts passing on by the street.
Russian citizens using horse-carts in commerce. Soviet women waiting in line for food. Russian soldier walking past the line. Child running. Street scene.
Soon after World War 1, a tugboat leads two ships through narrow open water channel in frozen Russian bay. Buildings and trees in the far background. View of area covered with snow. Children wearing warm clothes stand in front of ship on which is written: 'Margus Newark USA'. An American flag flutters on the flag pole of the ship. The children pose for photograph. A cinematographer hand cranks his movie camera on a city street. Other men stand with him. Buildings along the sides of snow covered street.
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.
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