Wing to wing (1972)

The national flag of France flies under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

A slab on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris.

The honor guard of the French army.

Brezhnev L.I. and members of the Soviet delegation stand during the performance of "La Marseillaise".

Panorama of the Arc de Triomphe, an honor guard and ribbons of the Soviet delegation headed by Brezhnev stand on the square.

Faces of Brezhnev and members of the Soviet delegation.

The orchestra finishes playing "La Marseillaise".

Brezhnev lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

French veterans hold banners in their hands.

Brezhnev greets French military personnel and war veterans.

Brezhnev shakes hands with veterans of the Normandie-Niemen aviation regiment, talks to them.

Faces of "Normandie" veterans.

The Soviet and French flags flutter.

Newsreel from 1943-1944: Soviet planes take off from a field airfield.

Airplanes changing formation in the air.

German bombers are flying.

Soviet anti-aircraft gunners are firing at German planes.

German planes are flying.

German pilot in the cockpit.

Soviet fighter is flying.

German bombers.

Soviet fighters are attacking.

Air battle.

German plane is burning.

Plane crashes into the forest.

Soviet fighters are attacking German bombers.

German plane crashes into the ground.

German radio operators are transmitting.

German fighters are taking off from the airfield.

German planes are flying.

Pilot in the cockpit.

Air battle.

Panorama of the sky.

General Zakharov G.N. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photographs of French pilots of the Normandy Regiment.

Photograph of Lefebvre M. Photographs of French pilots near their planes.

Photographs of the first commander of the Normandy Regiment, Major Tyulyan J. Photograph of the deputy commander, Captain Litolff.

Photograph of Captain Risso J. Photographs of pilots Durand, Albert, Lefebvre.

Photographs of Major Pouyade P. and other pilots.

Photographs of Jacques Andre, Marquis de la Poype R., Delfino L., De Seyne M. Photograph of French and Soviet pilots near an airplane.

Newsreel from 1943-1944: pilots of the Normandy regiment stand in formation.

Formation of Soviet pilots.

French pilots march in a ceremonial march along a field airfield.

Soviet pilots march.

Soviet and French pilots discuss a plan of joint action before takeoff.

Soviet bombers fly.

German anti-aircraft gunners fire.

Bombs are dropped.

Bombs fly down.

Navigator at the bomb sight.

Falling bombs.

Navigator pulls the bomb bay lever.

Bombs explode on the ground.

Pilot at the controls.

Burning German equipment (top).

Photographs of French and Soviet pilots during their rest hours.

Photographs of the commander of the 18th Guards Aviation Regiment Golubov A. Photograph of Golubov in the hospital.

Photographs of Golubov among Soviet and French pilots.

Photographs of Soviet pilots Pinchuk N., Basrsukov V., Zamorin I., Sibirin S., Seregin V. Photographs of the commander of the 303rd Air Division General Zakharov G. with French pilots.

Photographs of French pilots with Soviet mechanics.

Photographs of the senior engineer of the Normandy S. Agabelyan among pilots.

Photographs of Soviet mechanics and French pilots.

Photographs of mechanic I. Belozub and pilot M. De Seyne.

Faces of the mothers of Belozub and De Seyne.

Photograph of De Seyne.

De Seyne's mother is sitting in an armchair by the fireplace.

Photographs of Belozub and De Seyne on the shelf by the fireplace.

Newsreel from 1943: a night salvo of rocket launchers.

Soviet artillery fires.

Tanks attack during the battles near Orel.

Soviet fighters fly.

Soviet troops attack the enemy.

Soviet planes fly.

Soviet and French flags flutter over the airfield.

Air battle.

French pilots close their cockpit canopies before takeoff.

Air battles.

Photo by Major Tyulyan.

Clouds in the sky.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris.

A veteran of the Normandie-Niemen regiment talks to Zakharov G.N., gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1943: Pilots of the Normandie regiment stand in formation at a field airfield.

General Zakharov G.N. talks to French pilots.

Pilots in formation.

General Zakharov and the new commander of the Normandy, Major Pouyade P. Morning, planes at the airfield.

Morning forest and rural landscapes.

Newsreel from 1943: French pilots walk along the airfield.

Pilots play chess while sitting under the wing of an airplane.

Soldiers remove camouflage from airplanes after receiving an alarm signal.

The pilot climbs into the cockpit.

The airplane's propeller is turning.

The pilot gives the command from the cockpit.

Abandoned chess.

Airplanes taking off.

The radio operator on duty looks at the sky.

Air battle.

Pouyade directs the battle from the ground via radio.

German bombers drop bombs.

The pilot's face.

The bombs are flying down.

Soviet fighters are attacking.

Air battle.

A Soviet plane crashes.

The plane lands on the airfield, people are near the plane.

Soviet and French pilots are resting after landing.

The pilots continue playing chess.

Soviet soldiers in camouflage suits during a winter rest stop.

A salvo of rocket launchers.

Soviet tanks and infantry go on the attack.

Air battle, the gunner fires a machine gun.

A passenger plane lands at a Paris airfield.

Soviet and French pilots meet.

Newsreel from 1943: Romanian soldiers surrender near Stalingrad.

Captured Field Marshal Paulus F. among his staff officers.

Captured Romanians walk with their hands raised.

The Germans enter Paris in 1940, troops walk past the Arc de Triomphe.

German troops walk along the streets of Paris.

German generals greet the passing troops.

Horse artillery rides along the street.

Veterans of the Normandy during a visit to Volgograd.

Motherland Monument.

Newsreel from 1943: air battles in the Smolensk area.

Explosions on the ground.

Soviet fighters reorganize for an attack.

Air battle.

Burning plane.

Normandy pilot Risso J. Burning houses in Smolensk.

Soviet troops on the streets of Smolensk.

A tank column moves along the road.

Moscow streets in November 1943. Anti-aircraft guns on Moscow squares.

General view of Red Square.

Scene from the ballet Giselle on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater.

View of the auditorium of the Bolshoi Theater.

Ballet soloists take a bow.

A train passes.

Veteran of the Normandy regiment De La Poype gives an interview, standing next to Zakharov G.N. (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1943-1944: Lefebvre M. with a friend.

Pilots walk along the airfield near Tula.

Planes before takeoff.

A pilot boards a plane.

A plane taking off.

A pilot drinks tea near the plane.

Pilots inspect a damaged plane.

Airplanes taking off.

De La Poype and Zakharov G. N. play with dolphins in the oceanarium.

De La Poype's face.

Newsreel from 1943-1944: presentation of awards to French pilots at an airfield near Tula.

General Petit A. presents an award to De La Poype and makes him a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

General Petit presents awards to French pilots.

Awarded French pilots.

Pilots walk along the airfield.

Airplanes of the Normandy Regiment take off for the front in May 1944. Airplanes on a mission.

Air battle over Vitebsk.

Landing aircraft.

View of part of the airfield (from above).

Feature footage from the feature film Normandy-Niemen: landing of Lefebvre's aircraft.

Newsreel from 1944: loading a wounded pilot into an ambulance bus.

Photograph of Hero of the Soviet Union Lefebvre M. Newsreel of 1944: Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the offensive in Belarus.

Panorama of wild flowers.

Newsreel of 1944: Soviet offensive in Belarus.

Airplanes in the sky.

Golubov A.E. gives an interview (synchronously).

Game footage: German anti-aircraft gunners fire.

Newsreel of 1944: an airplane flies by.

A landed airplane.

Airplanes before taking off on a mission.

Yak-3 fighters at the airfield.

General De Gaulle gives a speech in liberated Paris.

People listen to De Gaulle.

Jubilant residents on the streets and squares of Paris.

An airplane flies over the Place de la Concorde.

Soviet pilots congratulate the French on the liberation of Paris.

De Seyne's mother sits in an armchair by the fireplace.

Newsreel from 1944: planes are being diverted en route to a new airfield.

Planes in flight.

Footage from the film "Normandie-Niemen": De Seyne's attempt to land.

Newsreel from 1944: the plane falls and crashes.

Belouzub's mother sits at the table.

De Seyne's mother gives an interview (synchronously).

Photos of Belouzub and De Seyne on the shelf by the fireplace, De Seyne's mother gives an interview (synchronously). "Normandie" veteran Jacques Andre sits by a flowerbed.

Andre gives an interview in the greenhouse (synchronously).

Andre walks through the greenhouse along the flower beds.

Newsreel from 1944: Andre by the plane with the Order of the Red Banner on his uniform.

Andre gives an interview (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1944-1945: fighters in the sky reform for an attack.

Air battles over East Prussia.

Damaged German planes are burning.

Planes are flying into battle.

The face of a German anti-aircraft gunner.

Planes are dropping bombs.

German anti-aircraft artillery is firing.

German troops are counterattacking.

German soldiers are firing back from cover.

General Chernyakhovsky I.D. on the bank of the Neman.

Soviet troops are crossing the Neman.

Chernyakhovsky is watching the crossing on the bank of the Neman.

Soviet tanks, artillery and infantry are on the march.

French pilots are walking down a Moscow street.

General De Gaulle is presenting awards to pilots of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment.

De Gaulle is presenting awards to Soviet military personnel.

De Gaulle is giving a speech to French pilots.

The pilots are applauding De Gaulle.

A mechanic is helping a French pilot to put on his parachute.

The pilot is climbing into the cockpit.

French pilots before taking off for France.

Lieutenant Colonel Delfino L. in front of the regiment formation.

Airplanes taking off.

Soviet aircraft in the sky over Konigsberg.

Air battle.

Enemy aircraft in the sights.

Airplane falls into the forest.

Air battle.

Pilots stand in formation at the airfield.

Awarding the Normandie-Niemen Regiment with the Order of the Red Banner.

General Khryukin attaches the award to the regiment's banner.

General Petit and General Zakharov during the presentation of the award.

General Khryukin congratulates the regiment commander.

Soviet generals greet the regiment as it marches past.

Pilots of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment march along the airfield.

Soviet and French pilots march along the airfield.

Airplanes fly by.

Victory salute in Moscow.

Jubilant people on the streets of Moscow.

Pilots of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment during a ceremonial reception in Moscow.

Chief Marshal of Aviation A.A. Novikov delivers a speech to the pilots.

Faces of the French pilots.

Novikov presents Soviet orders to the French.

Novikov talks with the decorated French.

Pilots of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment at the airfield before flying to France.

Faces of the Soviet pilots.

General Levandovich presents memorable gifts.

The French pilots examine the presented model of the airplane.

General Levandovich shakes hands with the French pilots.

General Petit delivers a speech to the pilots.

The pilots listen to the general's speech.

The Soviet and French flags are fluttering.

Generals Levandovich and Petit wave goodbye to the departing French pilots.

Airplanes in the sky.

View of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (from above).