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The 1st Romanian Armored Division consisted of 121 R-2 light tanks and 19 German-produced tanks (Panzer III and IV). On 20 November, near Serafimovich, the Romanian 1st Armored Division fought against the 19th Tank Brigade of the Soviet 26th Tank Corps. By the end of the day, the Romanians destroyed 62 Soviet tanks for the cost of 25 tanks of ...
The 1st Infantry Division Dacica was one of the major units of the Romanian Land Forces, with its headquarters located in Bucharest. It was the heraldic successor of the Romanian First Army . On 31 August 2015, 1st Infantry Division headquarters disbanded, to become, three months later, the Headquarters Multinational Division Southeast of NATO ...
The main combat formations of Romania are the 2nd Infantry Division Getica, and the 4th Infantry Division Gemina. Until 2015, the Romanian Land Forces fielded a third division, namely the 1st Division Dacia. Before June 2008, the 1st and 4th divisions were known as the 1st Territorial Army Corps and the 4th Territorial Army Corps, and in turn ...
That day, the 1st Romanian Armored Division, equipped with 121 R-2 light tanks and 19 German-produced tanks (Panzer III and IV) fought against the 19th Tank Brigade of the Soviet 1st Guards Tank Division; by the end of the day, the Romanians had destroyed 62 Soviet tanks for the cost of 25 tanks of their own. The next day, Pastia's group was ...
During Operation München, when Romania entered World War II on the side of the Axis in June–July 1941, the First Army was in the interior of Romania while the Third and Fourth Armies formed the main Romanian assault force. The First Army comprised at the time the 1st Army Corps (2nd, 11th, 30th, 31st IDs), 6th Army Corps, and 7th Army Corps ...
282nd Armored Brigade "Unirea Principatelor" HQ, in Focșani 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion "Călugăreni", in Bucharest ( MLI-84M1 "Jderul" infantry fighting vehicles ) [ 64 ] 280th Mechanized Infantry Battalion "Căpitan Valter Mărăcineanu ", in Focșani (MLI-84M1 "Jderul" infantry fighting vehicles)
On April 4, 1944, he took command of the 1st Armored Division; equipped with several dozen Pz IV tanks and a dozen Stug III assault guns, as well as some SPW armoured personnel carriers for the infantry troops, [10] the division was the strongest formation of the Romanian Army at the time.
Romania joined Operation Barbarossa on 22 June in order to reclaim the lost territories of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union in June 1940. Sion crossed the Prut River with the 1st Armored Division during the night of July 2/3, at the start of Operation München.