Soyuzkinozhurnal № 66-67

Fighting aircraft, tanks, infantry on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Scene 2. July 4, 1941 (production No. 24361, cameraman V.S.Eshurin). The Red Army soldiers are standing next to the shot down German plane. The wrecked fascist plane lies on the ground, a swastika on the wing. Bullet marks on the plane. The Red Army soldiers are dismantling the fascist plane. The corpses of German pilots on the ground. Unexploded aerial bomb. Captured German pilot [senior corporal Willy Minke] surrounded by Red Army men. Captured fascists sit on the ground, they are raised by the Red Army, they are taken into the house. Wounded German soldiers jump from the back of the car, pass through the line of the Red Army. A German pilot, who went over to the side of the USSR, is sitting at a table in his office, answering questions. Women, children - residents of the front line - look at the shot down German plane, laugh. A Red Army soldier sits at the helm of a shot down German plane. Soviet pilot shaves, looking in the mirror of his plane. The population builds defensive fortifications. Commander Nelyubov reads the award decree to the pilots.

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