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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 Tudor Vladimirescu Division was converted into an armored division by 1947 while the regular Romanian army was reduced to four divisions [7] with no tanks, thus providing the Romanian communists the trump cards of mobility and firepower had a conflict with anti-communist elements in the Romanian Army taken place. The Division was converted ...
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.
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 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 ...
After Romania entered World War II in June 1941, he asked to be sent to the Eastern Front. On November 19, 1942, at the start of the Battle of Stalingrad, Colonel Pastia was assigned to the 1st Armored Division (General Gheorghe Radu), which was subordinated to the Third Romanian Army (General Petre Dumitrescu).
He commanded the center for artillery instruction between 1940 and 1941. On 10 May 1941 he was promoted to brigadier general [1] and on 16 May he was appointed commanding officer of the 1st Armored Division. [2] The division was equipped with some 200 armored vehicles, out of a total of 374 such vehicles in all of the Romanian Army.