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Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal representative, departs Moscow after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union in World War II

Slate reads (in Russian) "Departure from Moscow by Mr. Harry Hopkins." Harry Hopkins, President Franklin Roosevelt's personal envoy, steps from a car and receives farewell expressions from a British Admiral and army officer, as he prepares to board an airplane departing Moscow, after negotiating American Lend Lease assistance to the Soviet Union, during World War 2. Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, arrives in a car and walks to the group saying goodby to Hopkins. Two Soviet officers and two men in civilian clothes stand on the airport ramp. American Ambassador, Lawrence Steinhardt and British Ambassador, Sir Stafford Cripps chat with an American Army Air Forces pilot. Group of diplomats and military officers gather wishing Hopkins well. Hopkins conversing with Chairman Kalinin. Hopkins making the rounds shaking hands with diplomats and a final vigorous one with Kalinin. He climbs aboard the waiting C-47 transport plane. It taxis out and is next seen flying overhead as those on the ground wave goodby.

Location: Moscow Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1941, July
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675039427
Russian forces resisting German invasion during Operation Barbarossa in World War II

Opening scene shows Soviet infantry moving across a field, near a parked, heavily camouflaged Soviet T-28 medium tank. during World War 2. Closeup of T-28 tank covered in straw, and another in the open in the field in the background. Several views of Soviet heavy artillery firing from camouflaged positions in woods. heavily camouflaged Soviet army trucks moving along a road. Closeup of a wide track Soviet assault tank with offset gun, passing on the road. Soviet soldiers unloading boxes of ammunition. Four Soviet aviators conversing. Airmen loading bombs aboard a Soviet aircraft. Soviet pilots confer before start of mission. They then proceed to their aircraft. One climbs into open cockpit of a Polikarpov I-16 fighter aircraft. A Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka bomber taking off on a grassy field. Closeup of soviet pilot in open cockpit of a MiG-1 fighter plane. Various views of two MiG-1 aircraft with engine running, as they taxis out and take off. View from ground of the two aircraft in flight overhead. A Soviet soldier with binoculars spotting aircraft overhead. Views from aircraft dropping bombs. View from ground of bombs bursting , raising huge clouds. Glimpse, again, of spotter with binoculars. smoke rising from crashed aircraft. Closeup of remains of destroyed German airplane. Aerial view of a Petlyakov Pe-8 bomber dropping bombs on an enemy held airfield. Closeup of gloved hand of pilot in cockpit, releasing bombs. Glimpse from inside the aircraft as bombs fall. Explosions ans smoke from exploding bombs. Fighter planes inflight overhead. Black smoke rising from crashed burning German airplane. Several crashed German planes. Camera pans over wreckage. Body of a German aviator lies on ground next to one wreck. Soviet soldiers examine wreckage and remove parts from some planes. Two stubby Polikarpov I-153 biwing aircraft taxiing across a field. Pilots climbing out of their cockpits. Pilot sliding down the wing of a Tupolev SB-2 Katyushka aircraft. Another SB-2 shuts engines down and a bemedaled Hero of the Soviet Union pilot climbs down from the cockpit and embraces a wounded aviator standing nearby. Scene shifts to German prisoners of war being escorted by armed Soviet soldiers. German prisoners being processed at a camp. A truckload of German prisoners, some ambulatory wounded, are brought to a processing camp. Closeups of several in prison camp.

Location: Russia Soviet Union
Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039434
Army reserves are mobilized and Estonian workers are recruited into the Red army during World War II

Army reserves gather for mobilization. Views of soldiers showing their identification cards and are assigned duties accordingly. Young Estonian workers at Railway shops at Tallinn City walk out of their work place as a group, to sign up as volunteers in the Red army. They are seen sitting at a table and listening to a recruiter, each signs a document.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039437
Men serving in the Red Army are replaced by women in a machine shop during World War II

Film entitled: "Replace the Men," begins showing women at drafting desks working on technical machine drawings, during World War 2. They all rise from their seats, don their coats and leave. Next, a woman is seen in a machine shop, being shown by a machinist,how to use calipers to gauge the diameter of a steel part turning in a lathe. She goes to her lathe in a shop where other women are also working at lathes. Patriotic posters are on the wall in the background. Closeups of women at work on metal forming machines.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039439
Young men in the Soviet Union train to fight against Germany during World War II

Young men stand in a formation in the USSR during World War 2. They are all wearing dark trowsers and white sweat shirts. At a signal from their leader, they all reach down and each picks up two simulated hand grenades from the ground. Closeup of the "grenades." The then run through woods and jump over a rustic fence. Some pair up and use their joined hands to boost others into the air and over the fence. They leap over a fallen tree and then jump down a steep hill and up another. They run into a river, wade rapidly across it, and climb up the opposite bank, where they flop down throwing their "grenades" as they do so. They get up again and continue running.

Location: Soviet Union
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039440
President Franklin D Roosevelt making his 'Fire First' speech.

Shows President Franklin D Roosevelt making his 'Fire First' speech over the radio after the German torpedo attack on the USS Greer. (World War II period).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1941, September 11
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039444
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