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The Battle of Russia Deze documentaire behandelt het heldhaftige standhouden van de Russen tegen de Duitse overmacht. Mede door een verschrikkelijke winter bereikten ze Moskou niet. Dit was het begin van het ineenstorten van het eens zo machtige Derde Rijk. Focuses on the Russian people's determination to withstand the Nazi invasion from 1941 to 1943.

kopie van een portretfoto van jonge man in battle dress uniform met General Service Cap type baret met embleem en achtergrondje Royal Army Service Corps. Om de linkermouw een witte armband (hospitaal soldaat). Tekst achterop: "47223 Johnie" (kopie)

U.S. troops receive communion before battle. American soldiers in Normandy receive Holy Communion from Captain Joseph Esser, a Catholic chaplain, before resuming the offensive that in nine days carried them 60 miles down the peninsula's west flank and halfway across Brittany. Clergymen of all denominations are attached to the U.S. armed forces and go into battle beside the fighting men to administer ...

Princess Royal launches new battle ship at Birkenhead. A general view of the launch of the Prince of Wales as an enormous crowd watches.

Awaiting their 'battle'orders. The mighty 15guns of H.M.S. Hood seen as the giant battle cruiser awaited orders at Gibraltar before steaming out to 'battle'.

King leads his fleet in battle exercises in Channel. Royal Soevereign leading the Ramillies during the exercises in the English Channel.

Battle signs disappear in former Polish Upper Silesia. A German work squad removing the debris of the railway bridge at Myslowitz wich the polish soldiers blew up as they retreated from this east Upper Slilesian Industrial section.

Allies rescue Italian civilians from battle zone. British soldiers in a scout car take Italian women and children from their homes in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia, near Salerno, September 1943, to a safe area during the fighting in which the Allied Fifth Army established the beachhead for its campaign to help liberate Italy from the Germans. The Italian civilians had been exposed to German mortar ...

American war machines ready for battle fronts. Row upon row of American tanks, armored cars and other vehicles of war stretch as far as the eye can see at a U.S. Army Ordnance Department modification center in the United Stated where the machines await shipment to the Allied fighting fronts of the world. At the modification center, equipment is added to alle vehicles from the largest tank or tank destroyer ...