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Military operations in Romania, 23–31 August 1944: red = Soviet Red Army; yellow = Romanian troops; blue = Axis forces, frontlines. The major attack of the Battle of Romania – the second Jassy–Kishinev offensive, between 20 August and 29 August – was a Soviet victory. [4]
A Romanian R-2 light tank of the type fielded by the 1st Armoured Division at Stalingrad (far left) alongside a later TACAM R-2 tank destroyer (centre) and a T-34 (right) on display at the National Military Museum, Bucharest. The 1st Romanian Armored Division consisted of 121 R-2 light tanks and 19 German-produced tanks (Panzer III and IV).
Romanian troops were responsible for the persecution and massacre of 260,000 Jews in Romanian-controlled territories, though half of the Jews living in Romania survived the war. [1] Romania controlled the third-largest Axis army in Europe and the fourth largest Axis army in the world, only behind the three principal Axis powers of Germany ...
World War II; Was the final surviving Romanian World War I veteran at his death in 2007; Constantin Petrovicescu (1883–1949) Division General [104] Artur Phleps (1881–1944) Major General [105] Served during: World War I; Hungarian-Romanian War of 1919; World War II; Also served with the Waffen-SS and the Austro-Hungarian Army; Major awards:
Ion Antonescu (/ ˌ æ n t ə ˈ n ɛ s k uː /; Romanian: [i'on antoˈnesku] ⓘ; 14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II.
Romanian members of the Iron Guard, arrested by the Army after the pogrom and anti-government rebellion Romanian and German soldiers standing in front of several R35 tanks. During the days of the rebellion, Antonescu avoided direct confrontation with the Legionnaires but brought military units, including 100 tanks, into Bucharest from other ...
Politically, the presence of Romanian troops in Odessa and the establishment of the Transnistria Governorate led to a deterioration of Romania's international situation, with the British declaring war on Romania on 6 December, and on 12 December Romania declared war on the United States in solidarity with Germany and Japan.
The Romanian troops and Russian detachments led by general Nekrasov, Shcherbachev's representative, retreated toward Ungheni and attempted to regroup at Cornești during 20 January, only to be surrounded by a revolutionary railway battalion. Some of the invading troops surrender, while the rest managed to break out and retreat to Romania ...