War in the air. The Unknown War №11 (1979)

A. Pokryshkin and B. Lancaster are walking along the airfield. B. Lancaster is speaking - synchronously B. Lancaster and A. Pokryshkin are standing near the plane, Lancaster is speaking (synchronously in English). A. Pokryshkin is listening, speaking (synchronously) Newsreel - German planes are flying, the planes are dropping bombs.

A German pilot is looking out the window, explosions on the ground.

The face of a German pilot.

The road and objects are being shelled from an airplane, the planes are diving, dropping bombs.

Fires on the ground (from the air).

Houses are burning, equipment is burning in the field.

Soviet planes are taking off.

A Soviet pilot gives the signal to take off, the planes are taking off, the planes are in the air.

The damaged Soviet plane lands.

The pilots are bandaging the wounded.

Soviet pilots are preparing for the flight - they are putting on parachutes, getting into the cockpit.

The area is being shelled from an airplane.

The damaged German plane falls.

Newsreel - Captured German pilots pass by.

German planes fly.

Wartime Moscow - the Kremlin, Gorky Street, restaurant shop windows filled with sacks.

A hot air balloon is being transported in a car.

A monument to Pushkin.

German planes fly.

Air raid siren in Moscow - people are running, searchlights, German planes are flying, a bomb shelter in the metro.

Night battle in the air, a German plane is shooting.

People are sleeping in a bomb shelter in the metro.

Burning houses, firefighters are putting out the fire.

Air battle.

The mother of pilot Viktor Talalikhin shows a photograph of her son to women.

Photo of Talalikhin.

Talalikhin speaks (synchronously). V. Talalikhin with his family. V. Talalikhin with his mother. V. Talalikhin's mother speaks (synchronously).

A shot down Soviet plane flies, the plane explodes, the plane burns.

The faces of the pilots.

The body of the dead pilot is placed on a stretcher.

Funeral service.

The pilot speaks (synchronously).

The pilots say goodbye to their families before leaving for the front.

The train pulls away, those seeing them off wave their hands.

The Soviet air base on the island of Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea.

Soviet bombers fly to bomb Berlin: a pilot in the cockpit, guns fire, the plane flies, bombs fall.

Burning earth (from the plane).

The city of Berlin (from the plane).

Germans with shovels work on the railroad.

Soviet planes return to the airfield after bombing Berlin.

Soviet pilots stand.

Newsreel - Concert at a military airfield. E. Gilels speaking (synchronously).

Pilots listening.

Soviet pilots swear (synchronously).

Soviet planes flying, pilots in the cockpit.

Soviet planes bombing a German airfield.

Polar aviation pilots standing.

Pilots having lunch.

Young pilots with an instructor.

Pilots putting on flight gear, boarding the plane, planes taking off.

PO-2 planes standing.

Women's aviation regiment (46th Guards Taman Regiment): female pilots discussing the plan of action, female pilots reporting.

Planes taking off, planes in the air.

Bombs are suspended from the plane.

Female pilots walking.

Photos of female pilots.

Night battle in the air.

Explosions on the ground, equipment burning.

German guns firing at the planes.

Monument to a female pilot.

Girls walking along the airfield.

Newsreel - workshops of a military plant.

NDP "The Front Needs It - We'll Do It!" Workers at work.

Designer Yakovlev with a model of an airplane.

Designer Lavochkin.

Ilyushin Design Bureau.

Ilyushin talking to designers.

Workshops of the plant.

Commissioning of parked airplanes.

Workers near an airplane.

An airplane is being taken out of the hangar. F. Golovaty - who donated an airplane to the front, built with his personal savings.

The pilot is preparing for the flight, says goodbye to those seeing him off, people applaud.

An airplane donated by the Vocational School.

On the airplane of the NDP "Maly Theater - to the Front".

People are standing, among them the actress Yablochkina.

The artists say goodbye to the pilots.

The airplane takes off, Soviet airplanes fly.

Headquarters of the Air Force.

Commander-in-Chief of the Headquarters, Marshal of Aviation Novikov near a map.

Telegraph operators at work.

Airfield.

Pilots board planes.

Planes fly, tanks move.

Plane drops bombs, explosions on the ground (from the air).

Burning objects on the ground, German tank explodes.

German planes take off and fly, German plane dives, Soviet plane shoots.

Germans shoot from guns and machine guns at Soviet planes.

Soviet plane dives, burning German plane falls, German pilot killed.

Soviet pilots pass.

Young pilot congratulates Pokryshkin and other pilots.

Soldier leads captured German pilot.

Young Soviet pilot shows the course of the battle in his arms.

Captured German pilots.

Newsreel - A postman distributes letters to pilots, a pilot plays the guitar, pilots take a shower.

The pilots, gesturing, explain the course of the battle.

A wounded pilot speaks (synchronously) M. I. Kalinin presents awards to military pilots.

Awarding of a French pilot from the Normandie-Niemen aviation regiment.

Soviet and French pilots are standing.

French pilots put on flight gear before the flight, planes of the Normandie-Niemen squadron take off.

The plane is unmasked, a mechanic follows the plane as it takes off.

A damaged plane of the Normandie-Niemen squadron flies by.

The commander gives orders over the radio.

The pilots run across the airfield, an ambulance drives by.

The plane explodes.

French pilots are standing.

Flags.

Soviet and French pilots say goodbye. I. Kozhedub in the cockpit, A. Pokryshkin in the plane. A. Pokryshkin's plane is in the sky.

Fight in the air.

Pokryshkin's face.

Hands press the trigger, tracer bullets fly, a German plane falls, debris from the downed plane in the water.

Pokryshkin is rocked, the pilots congratulate Pokryshkin.

Pokryshkin checks the plane.

Planes in the air.

Pokryshkin directs the fight.

A burning German plane falls.

Pokryshkin is presented with an award. A. Pokryshkin on leave in Novosibirsk - Pokryshkin is carried in his arms, Pokryshkin's house, his mother, Pokryshkin's wife.

Pokryshkin says goodbye to his wife and mother. B. Lancaster and A. Pokryshkin walk along the airfield.

B. Lancaster speaking (synchronously in English). A. Pokryshkin speaking (synchronously), B. Lancaster listening.

Newsreel - Military airfield, an airplane landing, a pilot jumping from the airplane.

Flight command staff.

Marshal Vershinin with pilots.

Marshals Novikov, Rudenko, Krasovsky, Sudets during the war.

Soviet airplanes flying, command observing the sky.

A German airplane burning and falling in the air, panorama of wrecked German airplanes.

A group of Soviet pilots standing on the wreckage of a German airplane.

Soviet pilots standing by an airplane with the inscription "Stalingrad Berlin".

Pilots taking pictures.

Meeting of veteran pilots of the Great Patriotic War, banquet.

Newsreel - pilot in the airplane cockpit, pilots removing military equipment, walking along the airfield.

War veterans hugging.