5th Mountain Battalion Avram Iancu, photos and info

hello people,

first photo- just a check-up : 5th Mountain battalion staff in a 1938 photo.

5th mountain battalion, parade uniforms, Abrud 1938. My grandfather is the second on the right.

another photo from the instruction, 1938

instruction photo, about 1938, probably Abrud

Nice photos, nice uniforms.
Does anybody know, were they still using the Mannlicher rifles (last two photos)?

This post has been edited by Agarici on July 22, 2005 11:39 am

Of which mountain brigade was the 5th battalion part of?
In what operations were they involved on the Eastern&Western fronts?

As you can see in these photos too, the Mannlicher rifle seems to have been the standard training rifle at that time. This time, the photos are dated 1939/1940.
http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=516

Panzer Meyer, your photographs are outstanding, so I advise you to post smaller images and with copyright text over them, otherwise you risk to have them copied and used all over the Internet.

This post has been edited by dragos on July 22, 2005 11:25 am

You should use the search function on the home page of the site (the keyords 'Avram Iancu' should do it)

The answer is: 3rd Mountain Division.

Nice photos!
Would be nice and easy to look at if they'll be smaller....

You should use the search function on the home page of the site (the keyords 'Avram Iancu' should do it)

The answer is: 3rd Mountain Division.

Thanks Dragos...

I should, but it's so much easy to ask...
However, I'm exhausted by writing the "Romania 1940 - the Possible War" posts.

This post has been edited by Agarici on July 22, 2005 11:38 am

thanks Dragos.
well, about the photos and the copyright: I don't know, maybe I am a little bit out-of-date but I do not intend to restrict acces on them. the story was that these photos were kind of lost for 65 years, so now that I found them (and managed to scan them) I am happy to share. I thought about making them smaller, but it seems to me that some of the original beauty will be lost.
for the Oob of the 5th Mountain Battalion, I will annex my grandfather's personal fiche. Hope it will help. All I know is that after 23 August 1944 (the battalion was involved in heavy fights around Targu Neamt- I hope I am not wrong) all of them were taken prisoners and hurried to Russia. My grandfather managed to escape by crossin Prut River swimming and walking on foot until Ramnicu Sarat. as you can see, he was decommisioned in mid-September 1944 and never took part in the fights on the Western Front. shortly after, my grandparents divorced- so I was not in the possition to find out many other facts...unfortunately.
again, I am sorry because the photos are quite big but I choose the settings for the scan at a higher resolutin- I was afraid not to loose some quality. I am expecting thechnical comments and advices (about scanning and uploading photos)
ok, so here the personal fiche of grandpa

He was probably part of 105th Mountain Battalion/103rd Mountain Command when captured, because the 5th Mountain Battalion was with the 3rd Mountain Division near Beius in the summer of 1944. However, the mountains troops interned near Targu-Neamt were of the 104th Mountain Command. Strange.

Nevertheless, very good photos.

Probably taken on the day of the funeral of Queen Maria.

Hi

A solution would be to post only the thumbnail in the message and to link it to the full photo. The way you have to write the address (e.g., for the file of your grandfather) is:

<URL=http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4425/foaiematricola1hq.jpg><IMG>http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4425/foaiematricola1hq.th.jpg</IMG></URL>
where you obviously replace '<' by '[' and '>' by ']'. Notice the extra '.th' (in bold) in the address for the thumbnail.

The result of the above lines is:

I know this question will be hopelessly simple for many of our Romanian members, but it's not obvious to me, so I will ask.

In the original picture which started the thread, there is an officer in the bottom row, center, in a substantially different uniform than his comrades -- dark blue or black, with one row of gold buttons down the center of his jacket. What uniform is that and what is his role?

Thanks in advance.