Romanian soldiers with a radio during training in 1939.

Romanian mountain soldiers drawn up for review. This photo shows several of the older style dress uniforms for officers still in use at the start of WW2.

A woman in Romania cradles a kid in 1943.

A woman in Brăila poses in the uniform of a Romanian sailor during WW2.

"At Sevastopol are conqured the last casemates." The front page of the 28 June 1942 issue of *The Sentry* showing Romanian troops helping to eliminate the last Soviet defenses protecting the key port. German & Romanian forces seized the city six days later.

Romanian soldiers of the 34th Infantry Regiment in Ovid Square in Constanța in 1944.

The cover of *The Assault of the Mountain Riflemen" by General Leonard Mociulschi in 1967. His memoir skips over his service alongside the German Army to focus on his leadership while fighting together with the Red Army after 23 August 1944.

That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store. P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!

A pair of radiotelegraphists of the Romanian Army training in Oradea in 1986.

Romanian soldiers in Bessarabia, newly annexed to the old kingdom of Romania, in 1919.

Romanian policemen (on the left) & soldiers (on the right) circa 1941.

Wilhelm Filderman was a lawyer turned politician who eventually became the most influential Jewish leader in interwar Romania & guided the Jewish communities in the country through WW2.

Romanian soldiers of the 4th Mountain Battalion pose with a light machine gun during an exercise in Predeal in 1939.

The Romanian dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu (back to camera) meets decorated veterans of the eastern front during WW2.

German soldiers ride in a horse-drawn tram in Bucharest after the occupation of the capital in 1917.

"The Romanian Army's Victory, Our Quadrilateral." A postcard celebrating Romania's annexation of S Dobruja from Bulgaria after the Second Balkan War of 1913.

German mountain troops pose with locals during a stop in Romania in 1941.

A view of the shipyards at Brăila on the Danube in September 1943.

An illustration of firefighters in Bucharest from The Army Album published in 1852: an officer, an NCO, a private, & a bugler (left to right).

The cover of the January 1963 issue of the Romanian magazine The Military Life.

A German soldier near Constanța in 1941.

A Bulgarian soldier & a Romanian soldier pose together during the turnover of southern Dobruja by Romania to Bulgaria in fall 1940.

"Remembrance from the tea of 6 April 1941."

The Military Club in Bucharest in the 1930s.

A military cemetery with German & Romanian graves near the Tinguta railway station south of Stalingrad in fall 1942.

The front page of a March 1942 issue of The Sentry celebrating the oath ceremony of the new year of recruits for the Romanian Army.

British-made Vosper motar torpedo boats flying the Romanian flag in 1940.

How Polish Refugees Live. Images from a Romanian magazine. Some 50,000 (about half soldiers & half civilians) Poles escaped across the border to Romania in September 1939. Most left quickly, with only 15,000 still in the country by the end of the year, & 3,200 by the end of 1940.

Romanian soldiers position a recoilless rifle during an exercise in the 1980s.

A stamp from 1943 celebrating the Romanian Red Cross.

A Romanian soldier on the eastern front in WW2. Original color.

Soviet vehicles drive through the streets of occupied Botoşani in April 1944.

Romanian soldiers drawn up for review by the statue of Ovid in fin de siècle Constanța.

A Romanian soldier brandishing a sword in an interwar photo studio.

Mountain troops parade through Deva on 10 May 1942. At the time, hopes were high in Romania that Nazi Germany (& its allies) could defeat the USSR for good through another summer offensive.

A Romanian antiaircraft gun firing during WW2.

"War Ships • Commercial Ships." A 1944 advertisement for the Galați Naval Yards.

A brevet for the Medal of the Defenders of Independence in the 1877-1878 War issued by King Carol I of Romania.

Romanian soldiers take the oath of service during the communist era.

A Romanian chaplain prays over soldier graves on the eastern front in W22.

A view down Elisabeta Boulevard toward University Square in Bucharest showing bomb damage & clean up in 1944.

A couple walks down Elisabeta Boulevard in Bucharest circa 1943.

The burial procession of Marshal Constantin Prezan, a hero of WW1 who died on 27 August 1943, with his casket surrounded by an honor guard including generals of WW2 & followed by a group led by King Mihai I with Marshal Ion Antonescu & Mihai Antonescu immediately behind.

German personnel in front of a torpedo boat in Constanța harbor on the Black Sea coast in WW2.

Romanian infantry preparing for an attack in Hungary in December 1944.

During a visit to Chişinău on 31 October 1942, King Mihai I, Queen-Mother Helen, & Vice Prime Minister Mihai Antonescu, with members of the Governorate of Bessarabia, climb up steps to a lay a wreath at a military cemetery.

A teacher with her class lined up on a street for a parade (possibly for 10 May) in Tecuci in 1942.

Romanian troops in Sibiu in 1953.

A 1952 box of "23 August" fondant candy, which was named after the new holiday under the communist regime remembering Romania's "turning of arms" against Nazi Germany in 1944.

"The Heroes of the People: The Nemţeni Teachers Dead in the War, 1916-1918." An interwar memorial poster with images of educators from Neamț County who were killed while fighting in the Romanian Army during WW1.