BMW motorcycle, Skoda Truck in Romanian use, 2 photots and a question inside

Here are two photos from 1943. From the registration numbers of the vehicles (they are starting with "U") I guess that they were used by the Romanian Army.
The motorcycles from the background of the first photo are Zundapps.
On the first photo there is a Romanian soldier. My question is what kind of soldier is the man that we can see in both photos?
(Probably he is a Romanian saxon, since the inscription on the back of the photos are in German)



This post has been edited by Ertogrul on September 21, 2010 05:58 pm

Yes, both vehicles were used by the Rumanian army.
Very nice photos. Do you have more?

Gen. Dénes

Only these two.

Any idea what type the bikes are?

Image sent to me by my brother who found it being offered on Ebay a while ago.

Kevin in Deva.

It looks like Zundapp KS750 to me, but BMW R75 and Zundapp KS750 shared many parts (70% or so).

This post has been edited by Mircea87 on September 29, 2010 07:35 pm

Judging by the shadow text over the image, looks like a scan from a book.

The rank seems to be First Sergeant (Sergent-Major), as I notice one and a half stripes. I don't know what weapon, though I suspect ('cause of the motorcycle) he might belong to cavalry (a reconnaissance squad or something); also, his trousers are another colour than his blouse. My 2 cents...
LE: the motorbike seems rather a BMW R75: check out the round insignia on the tank!

This post has been edited by MMM on September 30, 2010 10:03 am

You are right ,Triple M,looks like a BMW.
Chek this out
http://www.cybermotorcycle.com/gallery/zun...vl_grey_TCE.htm

I said "I think"... also based on today's images of 70-years old motorcycles...
Not very precise and easily to "google up".
RE the column in the 3-rd photo: good target for VVS!

Provided that was any around !

OoT: probably not, but did you see the plane in the first photo? Could that be a Fieseler Storch or something? In the left upper corner of the presumed BMW-fan...

Hard to say,but the profile indeed seems to be of a FS fi 156.Depending of when the picture was taken,it could be one assembled in Romania.

What?!?!?!
Where and when were those planes assembled in Ro.?

Thanks for the help MMM! The motorcycle is a BMW indeed, as I wrote in the title of this topic too.
The inscription on the back of the photo says: "B.M.W - Motorrad 500 ccm. Links Zundapp mit Beiwagen 750 ccm. Im April 1943."

Plane? where?

On the first photo, in the upper left corner is just an error of the photo.