RUSSIAN NEWS (1944, NO. 3A) Reel 1 · Part 3

Description

On the battle for Sevastopol. Reel 1 shows panoramic views of the city and animated maps of the Kerch Peninsula. Troops board transports; bombers fly over and bomb two German ships. Soldiers sleep and write letters in a cave. (Apr. 8, 1944) Soldiers crawl over a field cutting barbed wire and sapping mines. A truck convoy moves across a bridge under air support. Reel 2, German installations are strafed by planes; Russian tanks and infantry advance. Prisoners are marched to the rear. Gens. Voroshilov and Alexandrovsky and troops board landing barges. German planes bomb the barges. Russian antiaircraft fires from supporting ships. A smoke screen is spread. Tanks and infantry disembark; the ruined villages of Theodosia and Enpotoria are entered. Russian sailors scan the horizon from a submarine. Reel 3 shows the interior of a Russian submarine; a German freighter explodes. Shows panoramic views of the harbor at Yalta; German prisoners are marched to the rear; peasants weep over the bodies of dead civilians; tanks and infantry, leave the city. Trucks enter Balaklava. Russian torpedo bombers take off from a captured airstrip passing wrecked German planes; a German ship is bombed. Russian planes dogfight with Messerschmitts. (May 7, 1944) Gen. Tolbukhin observes artillery fire on Sapun Mts. Reel 4, artillery and planes bombard Sevastopol. Infantry, protected by machine guns, advances. Mortars are loaded and fired. Shows German dead and abandoned equipment. Soldiers advance through debris on the city's outskirts. Tanks fire in the streets. Ruins are searched. Reel 5, Russian planes fly over a river and bomb German planes. Troops pass masses of German equipment. Prisoners, many wounded, are marched to the rear. Horse-drawn artillery and tanks enter the city. Shows debris in the town and in the harbor. Russian troops are inspected. Sailors man Russian ships in the harbor; anchors are dropped.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Motion Picture Films from "Russian News" Newsreels