Mariana Dragescu.

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The neighbours....
The Kalnuc villege of Tinguta.Sept 1942.

The clouths are Romanian made...

[Victor]

You mean Kalmuk

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The M and the N are close to each other .....

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Not a very clear photo (taken from an old newspaper).
The members of the White Squadron were invited by a hight ranking Romanian officer together with a Spanish General to a dinner.
The problem was that at that time M.Dragescu have not been eaten cooked food for a very long period.After eating ,she start feeling sick ,since her stomac could not digest the food.
A military doctor,who was present took her out ,in order to help her vomit.
Since he had no succes,he took her to a nearby field,where were hundreds of horse carcases in dif stages of rottening.The smell was horible,buy with no results..
After a while the found some medicinal salts,and MD start feeling better.
In the photo,she's on the left,with the Romanian officer giving her the dessert wrapped.

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Mariana Dragescu and Nadia Russo at the Dniester river.

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Thigina 1941.
Virginia Thomas-standing
And Nadia Russo ,Mariana Dragescu -resting between missions.

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From "Aripi Romanesti".

Photo:I.Dobran

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Sept 1942,40 km south of Stalingrad.
Another member of the Cantacuzino family (an arhitect this time),together with Mariana Dragescu,hearing the horror tales from a survival after a suprise atack by the Soviets.