U.S. fliers in training at Royal Canadian Air Force at Camp Borden in Canada. U.S. fliers getting paid and boarding North American Harvard-IIs. Harvard-II taking off and in flight.
B-17E bomber in flight. Close aerial views of aircraft flying in skies and clouds, soon after its introduction for use by British RAF and the U.S., early in World War 2
Men near gas cylinders to inflate barrage balloon. Views of men inflating balloons and raising it using winch. Narrator talking of every major U.S. city soon having such protection (early in World War 2)
U.S. military soldiers at Anfa Hotel's rooftop. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated with UK Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and other army officers standing behind them. President Roosevelt with Adm. King, General Marshall, General Arnold, British General Alan Brooke, Adm. Alfred Dudley Pound in a meeting. Views of President Roosevelt and General Giraud talking. Roosevelt with General de Gaulle and Churchill is seated in a lawn and discussing. General Giraud and General de Gaulle shaking hands. President Roosevelt talking to press and Newsmen writing on notepads. President Roosevelt flies to Liberia to inspect African-American troops who are guarding Liberia. President riding in a jeep and reviewing African American marching troops as they pass in review. Roosevelt meeting Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro.
Opening slate states (in Russian) "Our resistance to the enemy gets stronger and grows." Completely hidden in woods are Soviet soldiers using various telescopes and binoculars to observe on the Eastern front during World War 2. An Air Force pilot sits in the cockpit of his hidden Yak 9 fighter plane. View of of its nose and three-bladed propeller. Camera pans across to a hidden Soviet T-34 tank, and then to several Soviet soldiers looking at maps as they sit in front of a tent. Closeup of the soldiers. A BT tank with several crew in it heads toward the camera on a path in the woods. A heavily camouflaged army truck fords a shallow stream. Several soldiers ride past the camera, in a T-26 tank, raising lots of dust. Another T-26 tank passes. A sodier using binoculars. A Soviet tank or self propelled gun carrier with a stubby howitzer and a machine gun internally mounted. Soldiers remove foliage covering a BR-5 280mm mortar, which commences firing. Shells explode raising huge clouds of smoke and earth. Several views of the BR-5 firing in forest. Soviet soldiers crawling along the ground. One rises up and throws two items, in succession. Next a soldier fires a Browning M1917 .30 caliber machine gun. Soviet medics tending wounded. German Messerschmitt Bf 109 in flight overhead. Three Soviet Curtiss-Wright O-52 Owl aircraft fly in loose formation low over a body of water. View from ground of Yak-9 fighter plane coming in over trees to land. A German Bf 109 overhead. Soviet soldier looking through binoculars. Firre and smoke rising in the distance. Burning debris of crashed aircraft displaying Nazi swastika. Closeup of hands as Russian Air Force flyer makes entry into a log. Several smiling Soviet pilots stand together next to a Polikarpov I-153 airplane. They are dressed in leather flying jackets and have their goggles raised atop their hats. An officer with them is not wearing flying clothes. Soviet soldiers explore wreckage of a German warplane. Pieces of the wreckage are piled up in one spot. Several German prisoners are marched along a road guarded by a Soviet soldiers with pistols. A large group of German prisoner are marched in loose formation under guard.
Opening slate states (in Russian) "Replacement of those who left for the front." Russian boys work in a machine shop during World War 2. One operates a large drill press. A woman tends a lathe. Closeup of a young man using drill press to drill holes in a steel plate. Closeup of a women measuring a piece of metal in a lathe. Another woman turning items on a lathe with cooling lubricant spraying over the cutting point. She removes the finished product and places it on a table with others. A woman using a gauge to check dimensions of a turned piece of metal, possibly for war armament production . A young man consults with a woman at a lathe. Another woman also working at a lathe. A man and two women examining finished products on a table.
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