A Romanian pilot being helped into a fighter aircraft during WW2.

A collection of correspondence from 1942 from an ethnic Romanian soldier, from Reghin in northern Transylvania, serving in the Hungarian Army.

Soviet tanks in downtown Botoşani in April 1944.

A fin de siècle postcard of a Romanian artilleryman.

Romanian troops passing King Carol I & his military retiune after crossing into Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War of 1913.

Romanian prisoners of war marching into captivity near the village of Raspopinskaya after Operation Uranus in November 1942.

Several illustrations inside The Sentry of Romanian soldiers reading the newspaper during WW2.

A Romanian bomber on the Eastern Front during WW2.

Sea mines beimg loaded onto the Romanian minelayer Dacia in 1943.

An interwar Romanian cavalry sabretache.

Romanian fighter ace Captain Alexandru Şerbănescu greets a former colleague, a member of the Mountain Corps, at an airfield in Tecuci in May 1944.

A view of the port in Odessa under Romanian occupation during WW2.

The cover of an issue of The Sentry from October 1943. "In the Kuban Romanian soldiers stand boldly on duty."

In the Kuban Bridgehead/Taman Peninsula.

Minister of Defense General Constantin Pantazi speaks with troops of the 6th Cavalry Division in May 1943.

A Romanian ration book from March 1944.

The barracks of the 15th Howitzer Regiment in Turnu Măgurele in the 1930s.

The barracks of the 4th Mountain Battalion in Aiud in the 1930s.

Maria Antonescu, wife of conducător ("leader") Marshal Ion Antonescu, dictator of Romania during WW2. She oversaw the Patronage Council for Social Works, which received substantial funds extorted from Jewish communities. She was put in prison for 5 years & then internal exile.

A house burns in Sculeni, a town across the Prut in Bessarabia seized by a German-Romanian forces in June 1941. Soviet counterattacks soon forced the Axis troops to withdraw from the bridgehead. Romanian troops separated Jews from evacuated locals to be robbed, beaten, & killed.

A Romanian draft notice from 1965.

A class of "pre-soldiers" (premilitari), young men who attended some military training in their spare time with the promise of receiving higher rank & reduced length of service once they received their draft notice from the Romanian Army, in the 1930s.

A book celebrating "a new era" under King Carol II after he instituted the first one-party state in Romanian history under a royal dictatorship in 1938.

Captain Demetriade C. Gheorghe of the 9th Roșiori Regiment in 1917. He was soon to die in battle.

Princess Maria Alley (left) & the Military School (right) in Iaşi in 1916.

King Carol I of Romania, depicted as a teacher, thrashes Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria for his cheeky response to a lesson on geography, as other students, other heads of state, look on in a political cartoon about the Second Balkan War in 1913.

A new book on the militaries of Moldavia & Wallachia under Phanariot Greek princes. I'm really excited to see new research on the military history of the early modern principalities!

A Bulgarian flyer celebrating the Romanian ceding of S Dobruja in September 1940. The territorial revision was accompanied with a population transfer as well.

Several Romanian officers speak with German personnel loading a transport aircraft at an air field in Galați in summer 1943.

"It was bad with 'der, die, das'
But it's worse with 'davai ceas'
From the Dniester to the Don
Davai watch, coat and long-johns,
You can forego your ownership,
Harașo comradeship."

Words of a song popularized by Romanian performer Constantin Tănase before his death in Aug 1945.