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World War II naval ships of Romania (4 C, 12 P) ... 4th Infantry Division (Romania) F. First Army (Romania) Fourth Army (Romania) R. Romanian Danube Flotilla; S.
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.
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 9th and the 11th Mechanized Divisions operated Romanian built TR-77-580 tanks, the 2nd Mechanized Division and the 57th Tank Division operated Romanian built TR-85-800 tanks, the 10th and 81st Mechanized Divisions and the 6th Tank Division operated soviet and Czechoslovak built T-55/-55A/-55AM tanks, while the remaining three mechanized ...
14th Infantry Division – Major General Gheorghe Stavrescu 7th Cavalry Division – Colonel Gheorghe Munteanu; 4th Corps – Lieutenant General Constantin Sănătescu. 1st Cavalry Division – Colonel Constantin Brătescu [4] 13th Infantry Division – Major General Gheorghe Ionescu; 15th Infantry Division – Brigadier General Ioan Sion (KIA)
The Fourth Army became one of the Romanian armies fighting for the Red Army on the Eastern Front. In its campaign from August 1944 to May 1945, the Romanian Army lost some 64,000 men. The Fourth Army took part in Soviet offensives, notably at Prague in May 1945, which happened to be the last offensive it took part in World War II.
The Romanian 1st Armored Division, without any available radio contact, tried to advance to Petshany in order to make the junction with the 22nd Panzer Division, but was forced to stop a few kilometers west of Korotovsky by stiff Soviet resistance and numerous counterattacks by Soviet tanks, flowing between the German 22nd and the Romanian 1st ...
World War II sites in Romania (2 C) Pages in category "Military history of Romania during World War II" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.