A gendarme officer with friends on a hunting excursion in fin de siècle Romania.

A German aerial photograph of an air field at Chişinău in April 1944.

Romanian soldiers inspect ruins in Bălţi in July 1941. There were fierce battles for the city, with German troops getting knocked back by Soviet counterattacks, before the Axis forces finally captured it.

The German 16th Panzer Division, part of the German Military Mission in Romania, parades through the Great Square in downtown Sibiu (Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben) in December 1940.

A couple promenades in downtown Galați in 1941.

General Gheorghe Magheru in the 1870s.

A Romanian postcard of a fin de siècle dorobanţ [footsoldier].

A pair of Romanian soldiers, one wearing a Red Cross armband, pose for the camera during WW2.

Travelers at a train station in Galați in 1942.

Snapshots of Romanian-occupied Odessa in 1943.

A Romanian 2nd lieutenant fresh from completing training in Sibiu in March 1940.

"Subscribe to the loan of reintegration." The cover of a Romanian children's magazine encouraging readers to buy a war bond during WW2. The reunion of Bessarabia & N Bukovina was the immediate goal of joining the Nazi invasion of the USSR.

A parade in Chişinău held on 17 July 1941, the day after Romanian & German troops took the city.

A column of Romanian infantry, encumbered with weapons, ammunition, & equipment, struggles through snowy terrain on the Eastern Front during WW2.

The Soviet city command in occupied Botoşani in April 1944.

Some ethnic Romanian sailors on the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth in Tsingtao, a German colony in China, just before the outbreak of WW1. The ship was stripped of its guns & scuttled. Its crew went into captivity in Japan after the fall of the port.

An example of Austro-Hungarian propaganda at the end of WW1 from the Banat region targeting a Romanian-speaking audience. There is a typo in spelling God (Dumnezeu becomes Dumnezen). "God helped. God will help further."

A pair of Romanian border guards in Năvodari, on the Black Sea coast near Constanța, displaying their martial arts skills in 1993.

A cover of "The Children's Universe" magazine from WW2 with images of Hitler, King Mihai I, & Marshal Ion Antonescu.

The bread ration being handed out to Romanian prisoners of war after Operation Uranus.

An officer with his belle on an outing to the Băneasa hippodrome in Bucharest in 1913.

Ruins in downtown Chişinău after the arrival of Romanian & German troops in summer 1941.

Romanian soldiers in Valašské Klobouky on 2 May 1945 during the liberation of the the Czech Protectorate at the end of WW2.

A Romanian aid station in Ukraine in summer 1941. The words "forward post on the Dnieper" are painted on the building.

Romanian clergy dedicate a cross with the inscription "by cross & sword we conquered" at Șargorod in Transnistria (Romanian-occupied Ukraine) on 17 Oct. 1942. Shmuel Kurtzweil designed it & other Jewish deportees from Romania in the Moghilev Ghetto made it.

The attack against an air field in Galați on 6 June 1944 by American heavy bombers flying for the first time out of air bases in Ukraine provided by the Soviets.

New recruits of the Romanian Army swear their military oath in Popeşti Negoieşti in 1973.

A Romanian soldier poses with a favored stray dog in the 1990s.

Marshal Ion Antonescu, dictator of Romania, is greeted with a "roman salute" by people in traditional folk costume during WW2.

"Finally, Chişinău has escaped from Judaic leprosy." A November 1941 newspaper celebrates the last transport of Jews from the city (to concentration camps in Transnistria), announces the inventorying of Jewish pproperty for sale, & praises Marshal Ion Antonescu as a savior.

A Romanian battery limbered up & on the move near Timişoara, the location of the special artillery school, in April 1941.

Traian Popescu-Tracipone, a noted combat cameraman, filming Romanian troops fighting in Slovakia in 1944-45.

A story about King Carol II, Grand Voevod Mihai, Prime Minister Armand Călinescu, & Mayor General Victor Dombrowski visiting a newly developed part of Herastrau Park in Bucharest in 1939.

A series of photographs by an Italian photojournalist in Iaşi on 24 June 1941. Just one of many Soviet air raids targeting the city that was very close to the front line. Rumors spread that local Jews were signaling the enemy. Only a few days later a pogrom exploded in the city.

The WW2 military service booklet of Gendarme Sergeant Solomon Constantin from Hunedoara County in Romania.

German troops on the streets of Turnu Măgurele in early 1941.

A colorized photo of a Romanian river monitor at Tulcea in WW2.

A Romanian mountain trooper on skis during a competiton in the Iași Valley in 1986.

Bomb damage from a Soviet air raid against Constanța in summer 1941.

A Romanian pilot being helped into a fighter aircraft during WW2.

A collection of correspondence from 1942 from an ethnic Romanian soldier, from Reghin in northern Transylvania, serving in the Hungarian Army.

Soviet tanks in downtown Botoşani in April 1944.

A fin de siècle postcard of a Romanian artilleryman.

Romanian troops passing King Carol I & his military retiune after crossing into Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War of 1913.

Romanian prisoners of war marching into captivity near the village of Raspopinskaya after Operation Uranus in November 1942.

Several illustrations inside The Sentry of Romanian soldiers reading the newspaper during WW2.

A Romanian bomber on the Eastern Front during WW2.

Sea mines beimg loaded onto the Romanian minelayer Dacia in 1943.

An interwar Romanian cavalry sabretache.