Soviet-Japanese War (1945)

General Issa Pliev, commander of the Soviet-Mongolian cavalry-mechanized group (shaving, talking with soldiers).

Pliev and Marshal Khorloogiin Choibalsan.

The cavalry-mechanized group on the march.

The Soviet-Mongolian cavalry-mechanized group of Pliev and Choibalsan, crossing the Gobi Desert.

Soldiers push cannons, their wheels wrapped in chains.

Weapons, equipment, water, and supplies are transported by trucks, horses, camels, and cows.

Soldiers push carts.

A soldier distributes newspapers.

Soviet cavalry attack.

Soviet aircraft flying low.

Tanks and artillery moving along the railway tracks.

Japanese troops (tanks, artillery, infantry).

Soviet troops advance (tanks, artillery), fighting the Japanese.

A nurse carries a wounded soldier.

Dead soldiers.

Soldiers roll a cannon.

Combat on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, a boat offshore, explosions, shelling of a cave, landing of troops.

Japanese tanks.

Infantry, explosions.

Dressing the wounded.

Planes.

Ships.

Command.

Ships at sea.

Landing troops.

Street fighting, gunfire, explosions, fires.

Soviet pilots, detachments to capture and block Japanese airfields.

Soviet aircraft take off on a mission.

Soviet aircraft blockade Japanese airfields.

Japanese samurai pilots commit double suicide ("aerial hara-kiri"), taking off and crashing their planes, which explode.

Wreckage remains.

Japanese generals in captivity.