WWII Romanian AA defence sistem, Rom. AA defence pictures and info

HI
I wonder where these photos of ARR A/A bateries had been done, wne where
I supose Polesti 1943?
Photos from the page 3.

Reagrds
mirekw

Dear General Cantacuzino

Thank you very much and I am stunned on the photos you have obtained The photos were hard to obtained from difficult sources and I didn't see any of them before . Reagrding the remarks of your collegues I still disagree regarding the placement of the German radars in 1943- 1944 in Rumania , some locations mentioned of the links received are correct and some are not

For example the Radar at Campina south and south of Ploesti are missing.

The next questioned I had was where was located in WWII the Tigre -Luftwaffe radio guidance and command center /station at Otopeny ( exact location) and what is it there
instead of it today ?

Can you also post more photos of the Rumania anti aircraft batteries photos 1943-1944 at Campina , Ploesti , Constanza, Buzau and Buchrest ?

What calibers of gunns were on the Caterpillar train in 1943 ? The famous Ebay photo of 1944 Caterpillar is the captured train by the Russians and not the original train used by Germans againist air invasion of the Americans in Ploesti

DCan you post more photos of the Rumanian aa coordination stations ?

Thank you to all replies

Iceman

Pictures were stillshots from a propaganda movie made in '1943 not only at Ploesti but also at Black Sea shore and Bucharest defence.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on October 12, 2005 09:05 am

The "Tigre" radio guidance and command center was located north of Otopeni airfield. Today on the spot is Otopeni airport (with new buildings) . But i don't know exactly how much bigger was the area for this station. Some closed bunkers were possible still on the place ( a friend of mine told me that before 1989 for the extension of the airport, workers had big problems to destroy the old german command bunkers and some of them were just covered )

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on October 12, 2005 10:10 am

I'l try to do my best . But this topic was open for everyone who could add info or pictures with romanian AA.

It is probably due to the fact that some radars like Wurzburg FuSe 62, were mobile stations so could be moved to different places.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on October 12, 2005 10:08 am

Dear General Cantacuzino

Does anyone has a photo in colour or more aa gun positions of Rumanian Army from 1943-1944 . Was the Rumanian 5th Regiment under the command of the Germans or suveranely under Rumanian officers ?

Are there left any charts of Rumanian / German battallions from Rumanian ?

Iceman

This post has been edited by iceman on October 12, 2005 02:47 pm

Hey Private Iceman

I have also a question for you. Why you opened a new topic with the same subject as mine?. It is more simple to put all your questions (regarding rom.AA defence) only in one thread.

General Cantacuzino

PS: Victor and Dragos, i think it's better to move all the threads regarding AA defence in only one topic. Otherwise it will be difficult to manage info from "mirror" topics.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on October 12, 2005 03:37 pm

General Catacuzino
I just regeistered , I can not be familar with all rules and technicalities of this forum in just a day , please have understandig !

Ice

This shark is something of a real pain !

Ice

iceman asked a specific question about the radars, which belonged to and were operated by Germans. This topic is mostly about the Romanian AA artillery. I think we should leave them apart.

No Victor this topic was intended for all romanian AA defence sistem (not only for artillery) including radars operated by romanians or germans to guide AA guns or aviation. You know that "Tigru" alerted not only germans but all romanian units (AA guns, Aviation units and so on).
But ofcourse we must focus on romanian because is a romanian military forum so you can leave it like that.

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on October 12, 2005 06:21 pm

Romanian AA crew ( with Adrian helmets) near Ploesti. Source : P.T.L. book -Roger Freeman.
Anyone could indentify this AA gun ( 20mm Oerlikon ??)

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This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on November 21, 2005 03:23 pm