Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden gets off an aircraft. Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov and Andrey Vyshinsky greet Eden. He walks away from the airplane as he talks to officials. Foreign Secretary Eden shakes hands with the officials.
Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. A U.S. Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster aircraft lands and taxis at an airfield. British Field Marshal Harold L. Alexander and a British Admiral. Another C-54 Skymaster aircraft lands at the airfield. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and Harry Hopkins get off the aircraft. Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov greets them.
Preparations underway for the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. A convoy of vehicles carrying Signal Corps equipment moves on a road past a horse drawn cart carrying hay stacks. Russian civilians in the horse cart. The convoy of trucks moves on a road across a snow covered area. A Soviet female soldier halts the convoy. Another soldier takes salute of a truck driver and the truck passes.
Steamers on the frozen River Neva deliver food supplies sent by foreign relief organization to Petrograd, Russia during period of Russian Revolution and World War I. Soviet Russian children stand next to ship 'Marcus' from Newark, New Jersey, USA. Men unload food supplies. American relief administrator Colonel Haskall looks at a map. Food sacks being transported along snowy streets by horse drawn sled and sleigh. Civilians walk in snow covered streets, bundled in warm winter clothing. People gathered together in the cold eat hot food in the streets of Russia.
Near the end of World War 1, United States naval ship underway in rough seas. A United States flag on the ship. Allied troops on the march, through a town, in the snow. A map of Soviet Russia, highlighting cities of Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. American warship in Vladivostok harbor. A Japanese warship in Vladivostok harbor. Japanese Naval officers pose. Relaxed, smiling, unarmed American soldiers pose, playfully, on the wharf, with two armed Japanese sailors. Contingent of Japanese sailors, with arms stacked, seen with officer, on the wharf. Officials on a British ship in Vladivostok harbor. Several men of the 'White Army' (White Russian Army) in Russia. The White Army executes members of the 'Red Army' proximate to time frame of Russian Civil War following Russian Revolution. Map display highlights cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol. Crowd jams wharf as White Russian soldiers disembark from troop ship (several ambulatory wounded, first). A man offers officers a plate of refreshments. Crowd follows troops marching off the wharf. Map shown highlighting cities of Tbilisi and Baku. Russian communists celebrating.
Germans fire artillery to shell Leningrad heavily during World War II. Russian people work in factories continuing war production while bundled in warm clothing due to cold. Baker cuts loaves of bread into ration pieces. People move on snow covered streets. Close-up view of German soldiers readying and firing a massive Karl-Gerät (040/041) self propelled siege mortar (also known as Thor or Mörser Karl). Writing on side of the mortar says, "Thor." Other large German rail guns and a variety of German field artillery fire shells at Russian targets in Leningrad A building collapses from shelling. Men and women factory workers continue factory production of war materiel and supplies throughout bombing campaign by Germans. A woman operating a grinder. Rapid montage of scenes of men and women forging iron and creating weapons and arms including shells and grenades. A woman stacks finished artillery shells. A woman war production welder operating a welding torch. People in streets transport dead bodies on sleds and coffins on runners in the snow, as people die from cold, disease, hunger and bombing.
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