Funeral of German Major General Adelbert Schulz in the Ukraine. He was killed, standing in the open hatch of a tank, while attacking Soviet positions in Shepetivka, Ukraine. Field Marshal Erick von Manstein lays wreath on the grave. View of wreath from Rothenburg Panzer Regiment. Soldiers stand near the grave. Soldiers give gun salute in honor of the General.
Russian troops in Prague, Czechoslovakia, near end of World War 2. Civilians crowd on the streets. Trucks go on a road and cross a bridge on a river. A Russian drives past the crowd in a horse drawn vehicle. Soviet troops enter Prague. Buildings in the background. The crowd cheers for Russian soldiers. Russian cavalry soldiers ride down a street. A crowd near the river watch the entry of soldiers. A church spire. (World War II period).
Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower sits for group portrait with other U.S.military leaders and a British General, following the end of World War Two, in Europe. Among others seen, in the front row of the portrait, are General George Patton, General Omar Bradley, General Courtney Hodges, and the British General. A soldier stands with a horse sent as a gift, to General Bradley, from Soviet Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev. The horse blanket under the saddle bears a white star. Generals Hodges and Patton examine the horse. General Patton looks in its mouth. General Bradley and General Eisenhower walk around the horse and discuss it.
Opens shows a Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber taxiing on an airfield. Views from the side and from above the taxiing aircraft. AGM-28 Hound Dog missiles seen under the wings. View of underside of wings. A gloved hand raises guards on switches and they are activated. From inside an aircraft, two Hound Dog missiles are seen as they drop from it. Scene shifts to a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker aircraft taking off. Views of a B-52 bomber hooking up to refuel from a KC-135 tanker aircraft. Refueling boom is seen slowly extending to connect with the refueling input of the B-52. View of the boom operator lying down in the tail of the KC-135 tanker, maneuvering the boom. View, from his perspective, of the B-52 and refueling boom as they connect and begin refueling. Aerial views of the the two aircraft hooked together and then disconnecting after refueling is complete. Animated world globe is shown depicting Soviet threat. An Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile is seen launching. Views of B-52 bombers in flight.
German troops on the Eastern Front, invading Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna Belarus) during World War II. A map illustrates Eastern Prussian-Lithuanian border and German troop movements into Daugavpils, Kaunas, Brest-Litovsk and Grodno. German troops on horseback and carts on a road, passing by damaged and burning buildings in the village. German Wehrmacht soldiers fire artillery. Smoke arises due to explosion. A German officer points out a target. An industrial chimney collapses. German forces march forward and round up Russian Army prisoners. A wrecked Soviet tank. A dead body lying near a disabled tank. German troops sitting atop a tank as it moves. Elevated view across the Old Bridge spanning the Neman River toward the city of Grodno, with many buildings burning. The Grodno Catholic church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross (Bernardine), also called the Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross, seen rising from the city, with damage to its main steeple. Houses and buildings in the city burning, as German troops move through the city. Brief view of the The Jesuit Cathedral of Grodno (now The Jesuit Cathedral of Hrodna) behind burning buildings, as a German soldier passes by on a motorcyle with sidecar.
Korean dubbed documentary about Russian attack on Berlin, Germany near end of World War 2. Exterior and interior views of ruins of Hitler's Reich Chancellery building in Berlin following attack by Soviet forces in Battle of Berlin. Bomb damage seen on exterior of Chancellery, view of sign at entrance. Damage and destruction inside the Reich Chancellery building. An animated map showing Hitler's plan of conquest. Quotes from Fuhrer Hitler are printed below each arrow. At 3:38 there is a catapult takeoff and brief flight view of a German Luftwaffe Blohm & Voss BV 138 Seedrache flying boat (Sea Dragon, also known as Der Fliegende Holzschuh or "flying clog" based on the side-view shape of its fuselage) used for maritime reconnaissance. View of German parachutists jumping from a plane and landing on snow covered terrain.
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