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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]
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 ...
The Bolsheviks installed cannons overlooking the Romanian capital-in-exile. On 22 December 1917, Romanian soldiers attacked a camp of Bolsheviks and sent them on a train back to Russia. The next day another train filled with Bolshevik troops left Odessa but was turned back at the Prut River by Romanian soldiers. [4]
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:
The Soviet counter-attack delivered as part of the general Donbas–Rostov strategic defensive operation (29 September 1941 – 16 November 1941) also forced Rundstedt's Army Group South to order his 1st Panzer Army to manoeuvre in order to be better placed to counter any further Soviet thrusts in the Romanian sector of the front, and also to ...
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).
Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. London: Arms and Armour. Bernád, Dénes (20 June 2003). Rumanian Aces of World War 2. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-535-8. Deletant, Dennis (2016). British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN ...
The Battle of Turda lasted from 5 September to 8 October 1944, in the area around Turda, Kingdom of Romania, as part of the wider Battle of Romania. Troops from the Hungarian 2nd Army and the German 8th Army fought a defensive action against Romanian and Soviet forces. The battle was one of the largest fought in Transylvania during World War II ...