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@granttharward.bsky.social

Historian of the Romanian Army in WW2. Works at US Army Center of Military History.

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Roşior Soldier by Ştefan Luchian in the late 19th Century. A "red" was part of the regular cavalry of the Romanian Army.

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The corpses of Romanian Jews being unloaded from one of two "death trains" after the Iaşi pogrom in summer 1941.

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Romanian soldiers parade through ChişinΔƒu in summer 1941 after Axis forces compelled the Red Army to withdraw from Bessarabia.

30.10.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lipscani Street in Bucharest in 1939.

29.10.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pilots of the Romanian 52nd Fighter Squadron pose with cute furry companions in front of a German Bf 109 in Romanian colors (a cross made of Ms for King Mihai I) in Romania in fall 1943.

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I served in the Romania Bucharest Mission from 2005 to 2007. A wonderful & challenging experience during which I grew both spiritually & temporally. My mission changed my life because I then directed my historical passion into researching the past of Romania (& Moldova). πŸ‡·πŸ‡΄ πŸ‡²πŸ‡©

28.10.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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General Corneliu Dragalina, commander of Romanian VI Corps, on the eastern front during the Second World War with a portrait on his table of his father General Ion Dragalina, commander of Romanian First Army, who was killed on the eastern front during the First World War.

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Romanian soldiers carry a wounded comrade in October 1944 during the campaign alongside the Red Army to expel German-Hungarian forces from N Transylvania.

27.10.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A German chromolithograph of Romanian Army uniforms circa 1885.

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Romanian soldiers put to work on railways in Bacău County pause for a meal in 1967.

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The 24 January 1943 front page of the newspaper "The Word of the Marshal to Villagers" distributed in rural Romania during WW2.

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Romanian soldiers grinning after receiving German decorations on the eastern front in WW2.

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A pair of Romanian soldiers in Bessarabia in 1938.

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Romanian soldiers train with a radio during the interwar period.

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The Almanac of the Newspaper Bukovina for the Year 1944.

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An original color photograph of the casino in ConstanΘ›a taken by a German photojournalist in 1941.

22.10.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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German soldiers give the Nazi salute in the stands of a stadium in Bucharest with Romanian civilians and soldiers also in attendance on 1 June 1941 during some sort of German-Romanian friendship event.

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Soldiers of the Romanian 4th Mountain Division in Crimea redeploy from the Kerch Peninsula toward Sevastopol in mid-1942.

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Romanian troops marching in Dobruja in October 1916.

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Romanian soldiers getting their shoes shined circa 1941-1942.

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Romanian soldiers in a shelter at a battalion observation post in the Kuban bridgehead in early 1943.

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A spring day in 1941 in Bucharest along Victory Way.

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Romanian officers pose with a vehicle in Crimea in 1942.

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A horse-drawn sleigh in front of an oil refinery in Ploieşti in 1940.

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A pair of Romanian officers wearing winter camouflage in the Caucasus in January 1943.

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Romanian soldiers in their bunks during the communist era.

12.10.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Lahovari family ice skating in Romania in 1895.

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Motor launches being worked on at a shipyard in Brăila in 1943.

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A group of Romanian officers in spring 1941 during a field exercise near Bucharest to apply what they had been learning at the Superior War School.

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A Romanian officer poses with a goat in the Caucasus in early 1943.

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