Portraits of Romanian Soldiers

[Barbosu]

I waited for a long time to finally scan some pictures of my relatives that managed to fight with courage in WW2.

I'll start with the most highly decorated of them, my grand-uncle Major Ioan Moisescu, commander of the 1st battalion of 94'th Infantry Regiment (19th Division). He received Mihai Viteazu (Michael the Brave) Cl. III for bravery in fighting on Tisa river in 1944.

He was born in 22 october 1901.

The picture of Major Moisescu Ioan is taken before august 1943.

Below I translated a fragment of an original document (Ordin de raport - Report Order) describing one of his actions (in nov. 1944) which finally got him the MV decoration:



"The 94-th Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel Ionescu N. Ioan fought with bravery at the Minsdszent bridgehead, especially the 1st Batalion, under the command of Major Moisescu Ioan.

With great impetus, even after long and hard marches from Kistelek to Sarvasi and then from Sarvasi to Szentes, they attack the enemy at Alpar, pushing him to the North and successfully made a breakthrough to the ally units, encircled in that town.

They reject all enemy attacks and firmly keep the advanced position of Nor Alpar (T.N. - probably North of Alpar).
With the same energy they continue the attacks and occupy one by one the ordered targets, pushing the enemy to the North East of Cegled.

On 8-th of November 1944 they resist with energy to a powerful enemy counter-attack made with 17 tanks and backed by 2nd German Infantry Regiment."

This post has been edited by Barbosu on March 03, 2005 08:33 am

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[Barbosu]

Could anyone tell me what decorations Moisescu has on his chest? I croped a detail to better see.

Thanks

This post has been edited by Barbosu on March 03, 2005 01:01 am

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[Barbosu]

Moisescu was decorated by the Russians too. Unfortunately I don't know of his operations on the Eastern Front. Where fought the Reg. 94 or 19'th division?

I have a picture of the russian decoration similar to the one he got. I will come back when I will scan the russian brevet of decoration. It's called something like "For Victory against Germany in the Great Domestic War".

(source: www.collectrussia.com)

This post has been edited by Barbosu on March 03, 2005 02:02 am

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[Barbosu]

A picture of Moisescu as lieutenant. He entered the mililtary service in 1920, at 19 years old. I presume he went to a military school.



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[Barbosu]

My grand-father, Lt Mircea Chifulescu was born in 1915. He was a young teacher when he went to fight in the war. I think he was a reservist.

He fought both Eastern and Western fronts in 31th Dorobanti Regiment "Calafat" (2nd division). Unfortunately I remember only a few stories from the western front. Maybe he didn't want to tell me about how many russians he killed because that was not a good time to do that (in communist regime).

In the Western front he fought his way to the Tatra Mountains, in Cehoslovakia. He commanded a company (IIRC) and had the code name "Barbosu" as it's written in a military book (I will try to find it)

I hope to find out more about him and honour him here, in the forum.

Barbosu

This post has been edited by Barbosu on March 03, 2005 09:16 am

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[Barbosu]

I found only a few pictures of him on the front for now, but I will look again.

In this one he is second from the left (he lost a lot of weight).

I wonder who was the officer in the center of the picture: he is the kind of Erol Flyn type, a romantic hero, but who knows?

I think all of the officers in the picture were from 31th Dorobanti Regiment but I don't know the location.

This post has been edited by Barbosu on March 03, 2005 09:38 am

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[Barbosu]

In this one I think maybe they were writing home or reading letters or they could have preparing an attack.

Chifulescu is standing, smoking.

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[Victor]

Two posts with military diplomas have been moved to a more suitable topic.
http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=1911

[Barbosu]

This is Chifulescu Ioan (or Ion) one of my grand-father's brothers. He was a captain in a tank unit. That's all I have about him in this momment.

I asked for info about him in the tank commanders topic and hope anyone will help.

A third brother was the Ofiter de echipaj pilot Chifulescu Virgil Florea, but so far I have only a small picture with him in his car and I can't see his face. I will post it as soon as I'll scan it.

Barbosu

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[Barbosu]

Victor

Thanks for opening a new topic for me. I'll edit the first post there.

Cheers,

Barbosu



This post has been edited by Barbosu on March 03, 2005 10:21 am

[Barbosu]

Victor

I found out yesterday that a good friend has a MV recipient in the family who apparently fought in same regiment with my grand-father. I hope he will find some photos and post them here on the forum.

Please give me the text of Michael the Brave brevet for Maj. ILIE ELIAN.

Thanks,

Barbosu

[dragos]

Maior Elian Ilie - din Regimentul 31 dorobanţi "Calafat":
DR 2505/13.09.1943 - cl. III

http://www.worldwar2.ro/mv/index.php?page=7&language=en

[Barbosu]

1. Thanks Dragos. I know about the list of MV recipients on the site and we found Elian there. Sometime ago, Victor gave me a more detailed text about my grand-uncle, Moisescu Ioan. I hoped he could do the same for Elian.


2. Can you or anyone help me please with the decorations on Moisescu (in detail, the second post on page 4).

Cheers,

Barbosu

[Dénes]

Another pair of portrait photos of an officer wearing the FRN - Frontul Renasterii Nationale - armband and cap insignia (from eBay).

Gen. Dénes

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[C-2]

Yesterday,I had the pleasure to meet Mr.Lupulescu Grigore.
A91 years old WW2 veterean.
He was born in Musesti Gorj on 30/01/1914.
He went to the military school in Targoviste (1936 Promotion).
He served in the 4-th regiment of Rosiori-Regina Marian as a subLt.He foght till after Stalingrad.
He was woonded sevearly at his right hand (and repaired very well by Germans doctors).
From his batalion only 8 people survived.
Due to his woonds(also frost bites to his fingers) he was realeased from the army in late 1943.
He was a priest in his home village till 13 years ago.
The photo is not very clear due to "flash problems"hope to change it with a beter one...

This post has been edited by C-2 on March 24, 2005 08:46 pm

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