Leningrad Newsreel Number 5-6

In front of the soldiers standing in the ranks, the order for the offensive of the troops is read out. January 12. 9 hours 30 minutes. Artillery preparation. Commanders at the command post. The crossing of the Neva by the units of Major General Simonyak. Captain Sobakin's battalion goes on the attack (11 hours 50 minutes). The corpses of the Germans in a destroyed trench, broken dugouts. The capture of the Preobrazhenskaya Heights by Soviet troops. January 17. The capture by Soviet troops of the outskirts of the city, the Shlisselburg fortress. Fighting in the central square near the cathedral. The capture by assault groups of machine gunners of Komsomolsky Lane and Krasnaya Street. Soldiers occupy a factory named after P. Alekseev. Map showing the villages occupied by the Red Army. Tank attack. Meeting of the fighters of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts. Captured German soldiers and officers. Trophies.

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1943