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Romania - unprepared for war; why?, Why was Romanian army NOT ready?

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Cantacuzino

Posted: December 10, 2008 02:07 pm

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How comes that you wrote Seeger's poem in German and not in English? Do you hate Americans, by any chance?

Marlene Dietrich (german) and Joan Baez (american) performed the german version of the lirycs. So I don't hate Americans or other nations. Just a preferance of the singers.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on December 10, 2008 02:37 pm

MMM	Posted: December 10, 2008 02:56 pm
General de divizie Group: Members Posts: 1463 Member No.: 2323 Joined: December 02, 2008	I understand, now... I see you are interested in Aeronautics. Does the name Horia Agarici tell you anything? I read in a book (Romania in WW2, by C-tin. Kiriţescu), but I have found no other source, that he was a lieutenat credited with the first Sowiet plane knocked down in the war. Do you know anything about this? If this was a matter already discussed in this forum, will you "guide" me? Thanx! -------------------- M

MMM	Posted: December 10, 2008 02:59 pm
General de divizie Group: Members Posts: 1463 Member No.: 2323 Joined: December 02, 2008	I stand corrected! I found about him on the Net... -------------------- M

Cantacuzino

Posted: December 10, 2008 03:20 pm

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I stand corrected! I found about him on the Net...

You can find his biography on our website.

http://www.worldwar2.ro/arr/?article=673

Victor	Posted: December 10, 2008 03:26 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4350 Member No.: 3 Joined: February 11, 2003	Please stick to the topic. This is not a chat room.

MMM	Posted: December 10, 2008 07:16 pm
General de divizie Group: Members Posts: 1463 Member No.: 2323 Joined: December 02, 2008	So be it! -------------------- M

uraken

Posted: April 15, 2009 09:21 am

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QUOTE (feic7346 @ December 05, 2008 07:34 pm)

Radar and aircraft carriers?
1- u dont need aircraft carriers when fighting only within the Mediterrenean! The Italian fleet was never too far from Italy and so could always call on Air support. Sometimes that air support was German. Look to the horrendous losses of teh British when evacuating Crete. So that is not valid.
2- As far as radar it might not have had radar in 1939 but I believe they had it by 1943. The Italians never fought forget about the equipment. Same for the Romanians! A common theme is if only they had better equipment they would have fought. That was false. Even when they had better equipment they did not fight.
No Yamato death runs for the Italian fleet.

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1- u dont need aircraft carriers when fighting only within the Mediterranean!

The italian fleet was serious hurt by British carrier based aircraft.
Examples are at raid on taranto by sowrdfish torpepdo bombers and several other
actions.

The situation was made worse because there was very limited inter service support in all axis forces.

In the evacuation of Crete the British had no carriers deployed. These loses prove how important air cover is.

MMM	Posted: April 22, 2009 04:19 pm
General de divizie Group: Members Posts: 1463 Member No.: 2323 Joined: December 02, 2008	Not-so-"off-topic": I just found out some archive documents according to which not only we didn't have armored manufacturing capacity, we didn't even have drivers for the motorization of army units! Poor country - not very well instructed people! -------------------- M

contras	Posted: June 28, 2013 07:12 pm
Maior Group: Members Posts: 732 Member No.: 2693 Joined: December 28, 2009	About those days, 26 June 1940: http://www.cristiannegrea.ro/geopolitica/2...am-alternative/

contras	Posted: June 28, 2013 07:30 pm
Maior Group: Members Posts: 732 Member No.: 2693 Joined: December 28, 2009	About the heroes of that dark day: http://www.cristiannegrea.ro/istoria-necun...oi-necunoscuti/

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