Romanian OOB summer 1940

Hi, guys! Can one of you to tell me what was the OOB of romanian army in July and August 1940 in Transylvania only? I'm also interested about number of romanian tanks and airplanes deployed to defend Transylvania in the period mentioned above.

Thank you very much!

Bogdan

I don't have the full OOB, I have found the following:

1st Army (Cluj)

VII Army Corps (Deva)
1st Infantry Division
18th Infantry Division
19th Infantry Division

VI Army Corps (Cluj)
16th Infantry Division
17th Infantry Division
20th Infantry Division

IV Army Corps
7th Infantry Division
8th Infantry Division
14th Infantry Division

2nd Mountain Brigade
4th Mountain Brigade
27th (?reserve) Infantry Division (Turda)
30th Reserve Infantry Division
7th Heavy Artillery Regiment
...

Thank you, Dragos!

Is it true that there was a plan to retreat along the Carpathians and resist in Transylvania against all enemies in the same time? (all enemies meaning Soviet Union, Germany and Hungary).

If you learn about this for the first time, you have to know that I did not read about this. I can detail about source if you really did not heard this before.

Defence plan Horea from 1936 and Avram Iancu from 1938 were based on some hypotesis regarding the atacks against Romania. Most hypotesis were based on the suposition that simultaneus atacks will occure, in various combinations: soviet-bulgarian, soviet-hungarian, soviet-bulgarian-hungarian, even a german-hungarian or german-hungarian-soviet one, only the weight of the atacks being diferent. In the hypotesis of a soviet-hungarian atack, the romanian army intention was to slow the russian atack on east, meanwhile stoping the hungarian advance in west, counteratack it and gain a fast victory in west, afterwards turning on soviets in order to resist enough until help will arive.

All plans assesed that against bulgarians and hungarians resistance and victory was posible and 100% sure if soviet presure was not too great. Of course that against a soviet atack Carpathian Mountains played a great role.

Also I am assuming that the defense plans created in 1936 and 1938 hoped in the functionality of the network of alliances linking Romania across Europe with nations having same interests.
Unfortunately, by June 1940 most partners of these alliances ceased to exist, and others (Yugoslavia, for example) reached closer links with Germany than Romania had in the summer of 1940.

This post has been edited by Florin on November 26, 2009 02:00 am

Yes, the aliances were taken in consideration, because Romania alone was unable to win against soviets, so a relief force was needed.