Mariana Drăgescu & Virginia Thomas, with two more Romanian airmen, speak with a German war correspondent about being female pilots air evacuting Axis wounded on the eastern front in WW2.

Some of the damage & cleanup efforts in Kolozsvár from American bombs on 2 June 1944.

King Carol I of Romania alights from a train in Roman to participate in the royal maneuvers in September 1898.

King Carol I of Romania alights from a train in Roman to participate in the royal maneuvers in September 1898.

An officer & his wife in fin de siècle Bucharest.

Thumbs up! Romanian pilots in WW2.

Romanian soldiers in a trench on the Iaşi front, near Leţcani, in May 1944.

"Greetings from Bârlad." A fin de siècle postcard of the barracks of the 4th Roşiori Regiment & a member of the line cavalry unit.

A lithograph of a German air attack against Galați in late 1916.

A menu from December 1943 for the Capşa restaurant in Bucharest.

A column of Romanian mountain troops captured during the Soviet retaking of Crimea in spring 1944.

Romanian soldiers pose with a damaged German airframe on a flatcar at the railway station in Odessa in 1943.

*The Commanders of the 8th Roşiori Regiment Botoşani*

Romanian cavalry in 1914.

Romanian priests & soldiers take part in the rededication of a church in Marfivka in Axis occupied Crimea during WW2.

"Romanian Wings." The cover of an issue of The Children's Universe from 1943.

Romanian troops on the eastern front in WW2.

Romanian soldiers on the eastern front in February 1943.

Male students from the "Leontin Sălăjan" Active Officers Military School for Antiaircraft Artillery & Radio Location meet with female students of Braşov University in the late 1970s/early 1980s before a military oath swearing ceremony.

The Romanian General Staff in 1902.

A still from The Independence of Romania (1912) depicting Prince Carol observing Romanian operations against the Grivitza redoubt during the siege of Plevna in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.

German-Bulgarian troops on the Cernavodă bridge over the Danube River following the defeat & retreat of the Romanian Army into Moldavia during WW1.

A Romanian battery at Oituz in WW1.

Out for a walk in Braşov in 1943.

Officers mug for the camera in May 1942 in Râmnicu Vâlcea.

Queen Mother Helen, King Mihai I, & Marshal Ion Antonescu followed by an entourage during WW2.

A Romanian flyer dropped on Bessarabia in July 1941: "The Romanian & German armies do not come in order to avenge themselves on the population. They fight for the destruction of communism & the kike kahal [a supposed international network of Jews undermining Christian states]."

A review of cadets at the Craiova School for Military Sons in 1902.

A color guard in Bistriţa in the late 1970s.

Members of the Romanian Royal Guard in the 1930s.

An officer with his family & an orderly in 1930s Romania. It was a common practice for an officer to have not just one but multiple orderlies, one (or more) being assigned to help his wife with house work.

A snapshot by a Romanian soldier of a street market in occupied Kharkov during WW2.

Romanian soldiers in Crimea during WW2.

Romanians dancing a hora (traditional circle dance) for Prince Carol of Romania & Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.

Romanian soldiers with local civilians after the liberation of the village of Vrbětice in the Czech Protectorate on 2 May 1945.

The leadership table at the national conference of the Romanian Communist Party in 1945.

A railway depot in Ploieşti in 1940.

Caption on the back: "In memory of the beautiful summer of 1943 Ritta"

A student identification card for the law school at the University of Bucharest for 1944-1945.

Romanian soldiers relaxing in Calafat in 1943.

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A group out for a promenade in downtown Galați in August 1943.

A trio of sergeants of Regiment Nr. 27 Bacău in 1908 sporting the caps with turkey feathers of dorobanţi ("footsoldiers"), which harked back to the uniforms of the Romanian War of Independence (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878).

The cover of the September 1955 issue of the Romanian magazine "For the Fatherland."

German soldiers tour the Bicaz Gorge in Transylvania during WW2.

A Soviet armored column entering Bessarabia in June/July 1940.

A parade for Romanian Navy Day in Ismail on 15 August 1942.

Some of the volumes of the series *Veterans on the Road of Honor and of Sacrifice* published in the 1990s consisting primarily of oral history interviews with Romanian veterans of WW2.

An identification card, marked with a yellow Star of David, from the Cernăuți County Jewish Office for teenager Janette Kornreich. She & her parents were converts to Christianity. The document is stamped in 1941, 1942, & 1943, so they probably escaped deportation to Transnistria.

"The enemy was here! We attacked..." The cover of an issue of The Children's Universe from early 1944.