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Hitler have promised Antonescu romanian soldiers will receive military equipment when they take the fighting positions nord of Stalingrad (the Don Bend) and south of Stalingrad (Kalmuk steppe). They received nothing: not anti-tank artilery, no wire barbed web constructed, no mined fields, no antita...

Dinu Giurescu in Romania in al doilea razboi mondial , ALL Istoric, 1999 wrote a couple of pages on the POWs, which mention mainly the situation from early 1942 onwards and the visits of the International Red Cross representatives and their favorable conclusions. The POWs were relatively well cared ...

dragos, The 48th Pz Corps was directed initially towards the Southern breakthrough in the sector of the 13th Infantry Division, but as the second one took place to the North in the sector of the 14th Infantry Division it was again redirected to meet the those froces, as they were closer. Unfrotunate...

Only one, because it was posted on the forum.

There is much more information needed in the FREIWILLIGE section, on the following nations: [...] • Romania [...] There is nothing in the ALLIERTE section about: [...] • Romania [...] Several years ago (before the forum changed the format) I had sent two articles to cover the above quoted subjects....

At least one squadron was equiped with Heinkels and served in Rumania alongside the Rumanian's own Avias, but I can't turn up any reports of combat phylo See here: http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/?article=443 There were two He-112B operational squadrons in June 1941. Romania did not have any Avias.

All Axis allies were required from Berlin to declare war on the US in December 1941. And Hungary did fight against American forces, in the same way as Romania and Bulgaria: air war.

As I recall, the German fuel shortage didn't begin until the loss of the Rumanian oil fields, roughly in August-September 1944. By that time, Panther had been in production a full year, so, if 7,000 Panthers had been available, there would have been a chance that the Russians wouldn't have even rea...

No Tigers and Panthers in the Romanian Army during the war. After the war, the Soviets delivered several Panthers, which were in use until 1950. Also, no Vickers 6-ton served in the Romanian Army. For more details on Romanian armor, see:

http://www.worldwar2.ro/arme/?section=19

Sid is right. The roughly 5,000 Romanians serving in the Waffen SS are just a small footnote in Romania's participation in WWII, as is the Iron Guard/Legion of the Archangel Michael, which disappeared even before Romania actively joined the war.

The story of the 22nd Panzer Division during November 1942 is indeed intriguiging. Does anyone know of any statistic of casulaties this unit claimed to have caused the RedArmy during 19-25 November?

MikeWindheuser, you could start by getting a hold of ONe of Mark Axworthy's books on the Romanian during WWII: one is entitled Third Axis, Fourth Ally and was published by Arms&Armour 1995, but is unfortunately very hard to find now. An extraordinary book, which should be reprinted. The other on...

sid guttridge wrote:
A Wellington wreck was dragged out of a lake in Romania about ten or fifteen years ago. I have seen pictures.

Unfortunately, it wasn't well taken care of and presently only the engines probably still exist in a dark corner of the Air Force Museum's warehouses. The wooden structure decayed.

...the top Romanian about 60... More exactly some 45 airplanes confirmed as shot down, of which 6 were USAAF (2 B-24s, 2 P-38s and 2 P-51s). Since 1944, the Romanian Aeronautics used a point-system. Thus a four-engine US bomber was 3, a twin-engine was 2 and a single engine 1. That is why his score...

it would also be interesting to look at how many Romanian troops fought with the allies on the eastern front at the end. Regards, David It is estimated that 553,121 Romanians effectively served in the anti-Axis campaign: 19,983 officers, 24,443 NCOs and 528,795 soldiers. Obviously not all of them a...