The Greatest Tank Battle. The Unknown War №10 (1979)

A panorama of the field. B. Lancaster speaking - sync.

Newsreel - A snowstorm is blowing, soldiers are marching.

Soldiers are carrying a wounded man, digging a trench.

Hitler is among the German command at a map.

German soldiers are marching on the parade ground.

The oath of German soldiers.

A column of German tanks is marching, a train with German soldiers is moving.

Workshops of a military plant in Germany, workers at the tanks.

German tanks "Tiger", "Panther", "Ferdinand" are moving across the area.

German officers are looking through binoculars, tanks are firing, a tank is breaking the wall of a house.

A column of German motorcyclists is moving.

An airplane is taxiing, aerial photography equipment is taken out of the airplane.

Hands on the keys of a typewriter, a telegraph apparatus, a telegraph tape is moving.

Moscow, the Kremlin.

A meeting of the General Staff.

Members of the General Staff at a map.

Photographs of Stalin, Zhukov, Vasilevsky.

Newsreel - Soviet military plant, workshops, molten metal pouring, red-hot blanks being processed, steel sheets.

Workshops of a plant producing shells, airplanes, tanks.

Tanks driving out of the factory gates.

A column of Soviet soldiers walking.

Soviet commanders walking along a trench.

Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Konev watching from the fortification.

The commander of the German army group "South", Field Marshal Manstein walking along a trench, standing with German soldiers.

A German officer presents awards to soldiers.

A German soldier plays the guitar, soldiers play cards, eat, smoke.

German soldiers receive parcels, letters.

Germany - landscapes, village, city.

Girls picking flowers in a field.

Letters are handed out to Soviet soldiers, a soldier reads a letter.

Burning haystacks in a field, a woman sitting on the ashes, a dead child lying, German soldiers shooting, a woman crawling towards a dead man, women crying.

A flowering meadow, a field of ears of corn.

Newsreel - the life of Soviet soldiers at the front: soldiers are sitting, commanders are talking, a soldier is printing a newspaper.

Newspapers "At the Enemy".

Tankers are talking, soldiers are sitting in the forest.

Tank (on the turret of the tank NDP "For the Motherland").

A soldier is playing the accordion.

Soldiers are sleeping, a soldier is smoking.

Landscape.

Soviet soldier with a sniper rifle.

A German soldier falls.

German soldier picks up a target, a penetrated target.

A sniper soldier in a tree, the sniper shoots, the soldier falls.

Soviet soldiers are leading a "tongue".

Tanks in the field at their starting positions.

German soldiers are sitting.

A soldier with a bird in his hands, soldiers by the river, a soldier is washing himself.

A German soldier with a rifle.

A German is smoking.

German tanks are standing on the eve of the battle.

A German soldier on the hatch of a tank, German radio operators, observers.

Landscape.

A Soviet soldier looks through a telescopic sight.

Soldiers in a trench.

Barbed wire fences.

German officers look through binoculars.

Sleeping German soldiers.

Katyushas fire, explosions, German soldiers run.

A truck passes, carts are burning, birches are in smoke.

German soldiers jump into a trench.

Tanks and military equipment are burning on the field (from an airplane).

Explosions from Katyusha shells.

Battlefield, soldiers are running.

German armored personnel carriers and tanks with soldiers drive by.

A mortar fires, mines fly.

German soldiers run, throw grenades.

A shell is brought to the gun, the gun fires.

The Germans fire from flamethrowers.

The earth is burning.

A Soviet mortar fires.

German soldiers run from the trenches.

A German tank fires, Soviet guns fire, German guns.

Burning military equipment.

Soviet soldiers shoot on command "fire".

Soviet soldiers run.

Germans shoot from trenches, German tanks advance.

Newsreel - planes are flying, bombs are falling, anti-aircraft guns are firing.

German planes are flying, bombs are falling, explosions.

A plane is shooting.

A plane is burning in the sky.

Air battle.

Machine gun fire from a plane.

A Soviet soldier commands "fire", the gun fires, shells are fed to the gun.

Battlefield.

Tanks are moving and shooting.

A tank is burning.

A soldier is firing a machine gun, Soviet soldiers are shooting, tanks are burning.

Katyushas are firing, explosions.

Planes are flying, bombs are falling.

Soviet soldiers are going on the attack.

German tanks with soldiers are moving.

Tank battle on a field near Prokhorovka - a column of Soviet tanks is moving, planes are flying.

Soviet and German tanks are rushing towards each other.

Battle.

Tanks are shooting, explosions.

Planes are flying.

Soviet soldiers are running to attack behind tanks.

German equipment is burning, dead German soldiers are lying.

Soviet soldiers are running, soldiers are cutting barbed wire.

Katyushas are firing.

The commander is firing a rocket launcher.

Soviet tanks are driving.

A moment of battle.

Damaged and burning military equipment.

Attack.

Newsreel - Tanks are moving across a field, Soviet soldiers are running to attack.

German soldiers are jumping into a trench.

Hand-to-hand combat.

Germans are fording a river.

Attack of Soviet soldiers and tanks.

The commander commands "fire", Soviet guns and "Katyushas" are firing.

German soldiers in a trench, a German gun is firing.

Germans are bandaging a wounded man.

Soviet tanks are racing across a field.

Attack.

A German tank is burning.

A German soldier throws a grenade.

Soviet tanks are moving.

The Germans are mining the railroad tracks.

Soviet motorcyclists are riding along the rails, shooting.

A bridge explodes.

Soviet soldiers are running through the village, a house is burning.

Villagers greet Soviet soldiers.

Villagers are walking with things, women are hugging.

A "potbelly stove" is being stoked in the street.

A woman with a child in her arms.

German tanks are moving along the road.

A house is burning (shot from the truck cabin).

A Soviet soldier throws a grenade, soldiers near a destroyed house.

Germans are running.

A Soviet soldier with a flag on the balcony.

Soldiers are running across the railroad tracks.

Destroyed buildings in the city, the wall of a house is collapsing.

There is an inscription in German on the building that says "Eagle".

Soviet tanks and soldiers on the streets of the city.

Residents greet Soviet soldiers, a soldier kisses a woman.

A woman is standing with an icon.

A soldier hoists a banner on the wall of a house, soldiers tear down German signs, tear up a fascist flag.

The city of Orel after its liberation - destroyed buildings, transport is standing, a fallen pole, things near a destroyed house.

Soldiers and girls at a table in the yard of a house, a woman treats soldiers.

Newsreel - columns of Soviet soldiers and equipment pass through the city, women hug the soldiers.

Battles for the liberation of Kharkov - Soviet soldiers run to the attack, Soviet tanks move.

Tanks and infantry on the battlefield.

A German tank is burning, dead German soldiers lie, broken equipment stands.

German soldiers come out of the fortification with their hands raised, captured Germans stand.

A column of captured Germans passes.

A rally in Germany.

A flag with a swastika.

A boy puts on a helmet.

German policemen fight with the crowd.

A parade of fascists in Germany.

Hitler speaks.

German soldiers swear.

A man's head lies on the ground.

The fascists throw corpses into a ditch.

Corpses of people stacked with firewood in piles.

Photo - hanged people, a German soldier stands nearby.

A captured German sits.

Germany during the war: parcels are sorted at the post office, postmen come out of the post office building.

A woman driving a tram.

Fruit stalls, an old man sitting in a pub, a woman cutting a ham, visitors drinking beer in a pub.

German recruits receiving uniforms.

Cartoon work - the Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR to mark the liberation of the cities of Orel and Belgorod with a festive salute.

Cartoon work - a loudspeaker against the background of the order.

Girls listening, soldiers in formation listening.

Commanders command "Fire!", guns salute, salute in the night sky, salute over the Kremlin.

Girls hug, people look out the window, people applaud.

Guns salute, volleys from guns against the background of the Kremlin.

Combines in the field, soldiers and women in the field harvesting grain.

Contemporary shooting - a wheat field, a river, a herd of cows grazing, fields, groves, trees in the fog, sunset.