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Antonescu and Adolf Hitler at the Führerbau in Munich (June 1941).. In the immediate wake of the loss of Northern Transylvania, on 4 September 1940, the Iron Guard (led by Horia Sima) and General (later Marshal) Ion Antonescu united to form the "National Legionary State", which forced the abdication of Carol II in favor of his 19-year-old son Michael.
World War II naval ships of Romania (4 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Military units and formations of Romania in World War II" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Air Force branch of the Royal Romanian forces in World War II was officially named the Aeronautica Regală Română (ARR, lit. ' Romanian Royal Aeronautics '), though it is more commonly referred to in English histories as the Forțele Aeriene Regale ale României (Royal Romanian Air Force, FARR), or simply Forțele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force).
The Romanian Land Forces (Romanian: Forțele Terestre Române) is the army of Romania, and the main component of the Romanian Armed Forces. Since 2007, full professionalization and a major equipment overhaul have transformed the nature of the Land Forces. [3] The Romanian Land Forces was founded on 24 November [O.S. 12 November] 1859.
The battle was one of the largest fought in Transylvania during World War II. In the Prague Offensive, the Fourth Army, together with the Romanian First Army and Polish Second Army, formed part of the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front. Marshal Ivan Konev, the commander of the First Ukrainian Front, was the main Soviet commander in the area.
Romanian World War II flying aces (5 P) H. Horea, Cloșca și Crișan Division personnel (4 P) R. Romanian military personnel killed in World War II (15 P) T.
This is a list of main warships operated by the Romanian Navy during the Second World War.It includes major surface warships and submarines. Each surface warship in this list is armed with at least two main guns of a caliber greater than 4 inches (102 mm) or with torpedo tubes, and has a range of over 1,200 km (650 nautical miles).
The Romanian resistance movement during World War II (Romanian: Mișcarea de rezistență din România) was a part of the anti-Axis resistance during World War II.This movement included both armed and unarmed actions by various resistance groups determined to overthrow the dictatorship of Ion Antonescu, which was allied with Nazi Germany, and to expel the Wehrmacht troops from the Kingdom of ...