Renault R 35/Renault R 40 info and pictures

Yes, Agarici i know you didn't think childish thrill about war. My father passed away in 2000. Like i said was not willing to tell his war exploits and as shame from my part i didn't ask it either. My field of interest ( since i was child) was only aviation history so probably even he mentioned to me some story ( like his presence with his unit at Bucharest "Malmaison" - for "Miscarea Legionara" rebelion defeat, or during the hard winter near Don in '42 , or to show me his wounds scarfs from Tatra mountains battles ) i didn't made written records.

But i can give some links from this site where you can find some interesting archiv records compiled by Victor and Dragos ( thanks for that) where sure my father was somehow part of the story.

First you can find my father picture here.
http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=794&st=15


An extras of operation of romanian tanks unit (Rg-1) at Stalingrad when my father was badly wounded for the first time.
Source:

http://www.worldwar2.ro/operatii/?article=12

"Opposing the 3rd Army was the South-Western Soviet Front (1st Guard Army, 5th Tank Army and 21st Army), which had 5,888 artillery pieces, 728 tanks and 790 airplanes. In front of the 4th Army was the Stalingrad Front (51st, 62nd, 63rd and 57th Army), that possessed 4,931 artillery pieces and 455 tanks.
On 19 November at 0530 in the sector of the 3rd Army a violent artillery preparation battered the entire front-line. The weather conditions were harsh: blizzard, snowing, -20 degrees Celsius.
On 20 November, the Soviet armored and motorized forces advanced towards Kalach, with the intention of encircling the 6th German Army fighting at Stalingrad. The 22nd Panzer Division, overwhelmed at Petshany by the large number of Soviet tanks, withdrew north of Bol. Donschynka. The 1st Romanian Armored Division, without any available radio contact (the radio station had been destroyed by the enemy during night), tried to advance to Petshany in order to make the junction with the 22nd Panzer Division, but was forced to stop a few kilometres west of Korotovsky by stiff Soviet resistance and numerous counterattacks. The Soviet tanks, flowing between the German 22nd and the Romanian 1st Armored Divisions, occupied the Varlamovsky and Perelasovsky villages and made the junction with forces come from Gromky, thus encircling the 5th Corps. In the 4th Corps’ sector, 40 Soviet tanks attacked the 15th Infantry Division at 1500 hours and a fierce fight occurred. The Romanian unit suffered heavy losses, but resisted and by evening the Soviet forces withdrew. The 7th Cavalry Division of the 2nd Corps unsuccessfully tried to block the enemy’s advance, the right wing of the division, which had fully received the blow, was retreating south while the left wing was reassigned to the 9th Infantry Division. Also, the 1st Cavalry Division had to retreat towards Stalingrad and was subordinated to the 6th Army."


Take care.
Dan.

PS: Btw. the name Agarici i heard it for the first time from my father. He used to teach me the song when i was a child and i like it very much and probably was one of the reason of my aviation interest.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on April 12, 2005 08:34 am

from HPM 09/2004


1940

1945
You can find a new publications on this subject on:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/minitracks/r35.htm

from May 1945 in the Czech Lands, Ground Operations of the Axis and Allied Forces by Tomas Jakl



really known R35

Nox, could you translate for us the lines from the photo/images with the R-35 (from your first post)? Any idea about when was the photo with the R-35's at parade taken?

Thank you in advance.

Sorry, but I don't read czech. The picture has been taken in bucarest after......

Always the same

Please state the source, nox.

from a cz site
http://www.detektorweb.cz/
Sorry I've forgotten to put the source

I think it is the same tank photographed from opposite directions.

The white circle's diameter on the right side is biger than the one on the left side. Could mean nothing, though.

Gen. Dénes

Also the same tank (picture) take it from the front side.

The wagons by the tanks doesn't look the same to me.

always the same one, but the wrecks could move, train perhaps
before SU85 on left after a K-T 2

This is the best picture of the “Vanatorul de care R-35 (transformat)” (not R-35) in this picture you can really see the shape of the Romanian made extension for the Russian 45mm AT gun.

Check out the link nox posted and you will see he is right. This one to be precise: http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?s=show...&mm=2&xb=2&vd=1

That was, I think, a junkyard for destroyed tanks.

This post has been edited by mihnea on January 09, 2006 03:10 pm

The picture from the parade was taken in Bucharest on the 10 mai 1942.