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The Military ranks of Romania are the military insignia used by the Romanian Armed Forces. ... General: General-locotenent: General-maior: General de brigadă ...
General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers 1846 [1] General inspector: Polcovnic: Maior: Căpitan: Porucic: Praporșcic: 1861 [2] General primar: General de divizie: General de brigadă: Colonel: Locotenent-colonel: Maior: Căpitan: Locotenent: Sublocotenent: 1912 [3] [4] [a] General de corp de armată: General de divizie: General ...
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 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.
Comparative military ranks of World War II; List of equipment used in World War II; Imperial Japanese Army Uniforms; United States Army Uniform in World War II; Ranks and insignia of the Red Army and Navy 1940–1943; Ranks and insignia of the Soviet Armed Forces 1943–1955
The Romanian Armed Forces have four ranks of general officer, in ascending order of rank: Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, General. In cases of exceptional military service, the President of Romania may award a general the rank of Mareșal , or Marshal of Romania, the highest military rank in the Romanian Armed Forces.
The Romanian vânători de munte saw action in World War II on the Eastern Front in some of the harshest battles — including the sieges of Sevastopol and Stalingrad — where their performance lived up to their reputation: virtually all their commanders from brigade level and up received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, with general ...
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).