Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin addresses the people of the Soviet Union during World War II. Men, women, and children listen to the speakers broadcasting the speech made by Stalin. “This war is not an ordinary war! It is the war of the entire Russian people.” the narrator translates Stalin’s speech. A printing press prints Russian newspapers. Man distributes newspapers. Russian men riding horses. Patriotic Russian men marching into a town to enlist in the war effort. Women plastering Soviet propaganda posters. Women and children trained for military tactics. A short-haired Russian woman tests a rifle. Boys use pickaxes in mining. A woman joins the Soviet Army. A female factory worker works with a lathe. An elderly Russian man harvesting wheat. A locomotive train driving. A woman piloting a ship. Women driving tractors. Women carry large sacks on their backs. Russian soldiers taking a metal bedframe. Farmers raising cattle. Houses, factories, and other infrastructure destroyed by fire and dynamite by Russians themselves. View of the Dniepropetrovsk dam in Ukraine. Russians blow up the Dniepropetrovsk Hydroelectric Station to prevent it from falling to Nazi hands. A woman torches her house. Farmers produce in fields. An old man with rifle watches sky for Nazi bombers. Burning houses and villages due to Soviet scorched earth policies. Guerrilla units trained and they march. Guerrilla soldiers with rifles. Men and women Soviet guerrilla soldiers talking. Soviet men hide in the bush. Guerrilla soldiers push down a telegraph post. A burning train. Guerrilla fighters shoot down German soldier. A burning oil depot. Exploding Nazi installations such as bridges, buildings, and warehouses. Russian guerrilla soldiers fire with machine guns. Animated map depicting Nazi German forces stopping outside Moscow. The Kremlin in Moscow. Fresh reserves of the Soviet Red Army march in Moscow.
Vietnamese awards to United States Servicemen on the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Lieutenant General Nguyan Van VY, Minister of Defense Vietnam, presents medals to admirals of U.S. Navy admirals. Admirals salute him. Chalk marking on hanger deck reads names of officers awarded. Commodore Tran Van Chon presents awards. Officers approach and congratulate the awarded officers. A Marine Captain shakes hands with officers who received awards. An officer looks at the award certificate. Island structure and rotating antennae on the ship deck. Crewmen seen on it. (Vietnam War period).
General Curtis E. Lemay arrives for a fact finding visit to the United States Ship America (CVA-66). Officers and personnel aboard the ship wait for the arrival. A C-2A plane of U.S. Navy lands and taxied with wings folded. Rear ramp of aircraft lowered and General Lemay steps off greeted by Rear Admiral Leroy V. Swanson. The officers leave the deck and walk to island.
Secretory of Navy Paul Nitze and other dignitaries on the commissioning of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Nitze speaks from a podium, ship's emblem behind him. Dignitaries and officials at the ceremony, seated in the hanger bay. Dignitaries seated on stage including Mrs. McDonald, wife of Naval Operations chief. Ceremony addressed by Secretory of State Dean Rusk, Captain Heyworth, Commanding Officer of CVA-66; and Governor Harrison of Virginia. Officer's choir sings in the ceremony. A sailor hoists U.S. National Flag as the ship is commissioned.
The commissioning ceremony of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Commanding Officer Captain Heyworth confers with another officer at the quarterdeck. Crew members stand at the hangers for the ceremony. Dignitaries and guests walk towards the speaker's stand in hanger nay. Commissioning Pennant flies from the staff lowered as the U.S. National flag hoisted in the hanger bay. Secretary of Navy, Paul Nitze speaks from the podium. Secretory of States, Dean Rusk speaks from the podium.
The commissioning ceremony of United States Ship America at Norfolk Naval Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. Marine Honor Guard in ranks at parade rest during the ceremony. Naval officers give speech to the crowd at the hanger bay. Ship's bandmaster and choir sing. Commissioning Pennant flies from the staff lowered as the U.S. National flag hoisted in the hanger bay.
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