The Russian Offensive (1942)

Titles read: “THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE - LATEST PICTURES“. Russia. Brief shots of the city of Leningrad. Local citizens help to build a stone wall in a street. Various shots in the Kirov works show men at work in the factory. Factory workers are also members of the Home Guard. They stand in line and march off. Also at Leningrad, we see the ships of the Soviet Baltic Fleet with their huge guns firing. Snow-covered ships engage in gun practice. An enormous gun is fired in a forest area. Several shots of the Polish Army, formed on Russian territory, marching along a snowy road while a military band plays. Some Poles go by on horseback and gun carriers. Various shots of a group of RAF men from Wing 151 looking at a map in an airfield. Commentator tells us they went to the Arctic Regions of Russia to demonstrate the Hurricane fighter planes to the Russians and then handed planes and equipment over to the Red Air Force. Squadron Leader Rook DFC, who was awarded the Order of Lenin by the Soviet Go
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