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As the Romanians began falling back from northern Moldavia, the 2nd Army consolidated their forces around the town of Târgu Frumos, less than 50km west of Iași. As the Soviets moved closer, it was decided that the 1st Tank Destroyer Battalion and the remainder of V Corps’ cavalry would be sent south to the crossroads at Săbăoani to secure their escape route. Shortly after giving the order to evacuate the wounded, elements of the Soviet 12th Army had begun probing attacks against the Romanian western flank.
The Stavka had ordered the 12th and 9th Armies to complete the encirclement of the Romanian force by linking up just south of Târgu Frumos. However, coordination and communication between the two armies was poor. 12th Army’s 17th Rifle Corps briefly succeeded in taking the road leading south from the town early on the 26th, but were forced back before they were able to dig in. 9th Army, which was only just finishing up the siege of Iași, wouldn’t join the attack until the next day. These scattered, uncoordinated attacks meant that the Romanians could focus their full strength on these attacks one at a time, and were able to calmly organize their evacuation.
After realizing that coordinating the two armies was proving to be nearly impossible, the Soviets decided to turn their attention towards inflicting casualties on the retreating forces before they got away completely unscathed. The Romanians anticipated this, and did their best to organize defensive strongholds along the route. Any available high ground was occupied by artillery batteries, and any wooded area along the road concealed a machine gun nest. Unfortunately, more than half of the 80km road from Târgu Frumos to Bacău was on flat, open terrain, which would only be loosely screened by the few remaining cavalry units. Despite the cavalry’s best efforts, Soviet forces frequently broke through this screen, wreaking havoc on the Romanian columns. One of these attacks routed most of the 10th Infantry Division, who then abandoned most of their heavy equipment and retreated due west to Piatra Neamț. However, all of these attacks would eventually outrun their supply lines and be pushed back by the next Romanian unit that came upon them, keeping the road open.
Still unsatisfied, the Stavka ordered one last assault on Târgu Frumos itself, where an estimated one-third of 2nd Army’s forces were still located, on the 28th. By that point, the Romanian rearguard was significantly weaker, and it did not take much for the Soviets to break through and enter the town itself, engaging the defenders in bitter street fighting. By the end of the day, Târgu Frumos had been almost completely surrounded, but a breakout spearheaded by the remnants of 2nd Tank Division led the surviving Romanians to safety.
Aside from the occasional strafing run or failed attack on Săbăoani, the march to Bacău from there on was fairly uneventful for the Romanians. By the end of the 29th, the last units had successfully reached the foothills of the Carpathians, from which the 2nd Army would make their last stand.
Over the course of the Prut-Siret Operations, 2nd Army had suffered 6,000 killed or captured (although they gained about 3,000 men who broke out from Iași), with another 3,600 wounded who were safely evacuated, while inflicting similar losses on the Soviets. The Royal War Council would later look back in highsight and debate whether or not the situation would have played out more favorably if 2nd Army had tried to hold out longer before retreating or even attempt to counterattack, as the Soviets were vulnerable from overextending their supply lines. While 2nd Army’s command was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing, it was clear that their habit of putting up token resistance before retreating en masse, regardless of how well it preserved Romania’s precious manpower, was having a demoralizing effect on the troops. Shortly after 2nd Army began digging in around Bacău, its Chief of Staff remarked, “Hopefully, the men will prove they can fight as well as they can run.”
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Has anyone noticed that I've used the same dark tan layered plate set up for the past 5 scenes?
Soviet Pacific "SP 198" shoves hard against a coal load snaking its way thru the Mitchell Curves. Tennessee Pass is drawing too a close, in the summer of 1997.....
On October 9th probably one of the most notable events in this year's calendars of Hungarian railway enthusiasts took place in the form of an excursion train. This time, the party was not thrown by the state railways, nor its nostalgia "subsidiary": Endre Barta took part in arranging some of the first independently organised excursion trains of the Hungarian rail-fan community.
The special train departed from Miskolc towards Slovakian border station Hidasnémeti in the morning to then ride along the beautiful Line 98 down to Szerencs, passing scenic locations with numerous photo opportunities.
The upper part of this line (Hidasnémeti-Abaújszántó) only sees one pair of passenger trains since mid-2020, so the sight of M62 163 (one of last two classic Sergeis of Miskolc) with the 4 Poznan built coaches caused some dazzled looks among the locals.
In this picture, the train is posing with a classic Soviet Kamaz truck near Göncruszka, with some pumpkins in the fore-, and the 755m peak of the Zemplén mountain range called Borsó-hegy (Pea-mountain) in the background.
Newly restored Belaz 256B 6x4 dump truck in its natural habitat at Welland Steam Rally.
These Ukranian built V8 diesel powered Kraz dumpers were imported into the UK in the mid 1970's by UMO Plant of Letchworth and badged as a Belaz - this particular lorry was one of several originally sold new to Dowsett Construction.
A soldier of the Soviet Army is charging towards the enemy lines during the Eastern Front of the Second World War, he’s part of a secret group called: The Oprichniki, a secret organization that looks into the supernatural and paranormal.
Believed to be disbanded by Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich
The Oprichniki changed its goals from a secret police to a group devoted to study and create phenomenon. They played a large role during the second world war and the cold war by studying the paranormal in the hopes of creating super weapons. The Oprichniki is divided into two main groups with each having several subdivisions. Their members are well trained into hand-in-hand combat and firearms and most high-ranking members of the Russian military are members of this secret organization.
This shot was actually part of a deleted scene of a brickfilm called: Lego World War II: The Little Match Girl. The reason why this scene was deleted is because of the time limit. 13 minutes is already too long for a brickfilm of this caliber. Several scenes didn’t make it only for this reason alone.
I highly recommend to check out this brickfilm because this was pretty out of the box for me.
I’m overall pleased how this shot turned out and it’s a pity why this scene couldn’t be included into the brickfilm.
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Hello! Just a little concept build for a retro Soviet Martian Lander and reentry vehicle. Haven't had much time to build recently but I did finish (more or less) this one. I've done a terrible job lately following and commenting on everyone's recent builds. Hopefully life will slow down soon and give me a chance to catch up!
The inflatable habitat was inspired by a similar concept in a dingy scifi movie called Moontrap and starring Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell. Basically Bruce resurrects as a robot and tries to take over the moon while Koenig camps out with his 2,000 year old lunar girlfriend in a blow up space tent. I give it a 4/10, if I was generous.
Thanks for looking, critique always welcomed!
Having only a few seconds before been driving along a steep wooded river valley it came as a bit of a shock to come across this outstanding RAF interceptor of the '60s and '70s. It was mounted on a plinth on the premises of Castle Air just off the A38 near Liskeard in Cornwall.
It is actually 31 years since this plane took its last flight in November 1987. According to Wikipedia, the Lightning remains the only UK-designed and built fighter capable of Mach 2. It was designed, developed, and initially manufactured by English Electric and was operated by the RAF, the Kuwait Air Force and the Royal Saudi Air Force.
The Lightning was initially designed and developed as a high speed interceptor to defend the V bomber airfields from attack by anticipated future nuclear-armed supersonic Soviet bombers such as the Tupolev Tu-22, but it was subsequently also required to intercept other bomber aircraft such as the Tupolev Tu-16 and the Tupolev Tu-95. The Lightning had an exceptional rate of climb, ceiling, and speed but was limited by its fuel capacity. Later developments provided greater range and speed along with aerial reconnaissance and ground-attack capability.
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One of the earliest Soviet tank designs, the Vezdekhod-17A rolled off the production lines in the first weeks after the Revolution.
If you like the idea of Soviet Steampunk, please check out my novel 'Red Mercury': redmercurysteampunk.blogspot.co.uk/
Soviet Cold War wheel bike. In response to Alt history Soviet things I have seen, I made this boi around 4 am. Not related to my other alternate histories, this is alt. Cold War, late 40s early 50s. Tell me what you think.
Well, I just couldn't stay away. I'm pumping content these days.
The Invalidnova housing experiment in Prague, dating from 1958. Probably a lot nicer now that the windows are modern double glazed ones and there are no longer any secret police routinely installing bugging equipment to check on the residents' political preferences.
Strange colours, with yellow pathway, thanks to sodium lighting. Hand held shot with the kit lens at quite high ISO.
In PP, I've boosted yellows a litle, cropped down, denoised and sharpened, but there's a limit to how sharp this can get, given that it was taken hand-held in the middle of the night.
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Tot passant pel pont del tren cap a Rochester (Kent), si mires cap al riu, et pots trobar amb un submarí sovietic allà aparcat. No és quelcom que es vegi cada dia!
Es tracta d'un submari clase Foxtrot, submarins de patrulla diesels dels anys 60.
De fet, aquest trasto, força massegat, té tot un historial. Construit a Leningrad el 1967 i assignat a la flota del nord fins el 1974, amb el nom B-49. El 1974 fou reasignat a la flota del Baltic, basat a Riga, fins que fou donat de baixa el 1994 i vengut a una empresa privada. Aquesta el portà a Londres, on va obrir com a museu naval fins 1998, quan va ser mogut a Folkestone, on continuà com a museu fins el 2004. Aleshores tancà i fou portat aquí, al estuari del Medway, on l'espera un futur incert.Espero que el restaurin ja que altres submarins d'aquesta classe han estat desballestats recentment, tot i ser museus en algun moment.
Per si de cas, i considerant el seu origen, aquest 2022, els propietaris hi penjaren una bandera ucrainesa.
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While passing the railway bridge towards Rochester (Kent), if you look towards the river, you can find a Soviet submarine parked there. It's not something you see every day!
It's a Soviet built Foxtrot-class submarine.
In fact, this battered, rusty shell, has quite a history. Built in Leningrad in 1967 and assigned to the Northern Fleet until 1974, under the name B-49. In 1974 it was reassigned to the Baltic fleet, based in Riga, until it was decommissioned in 1994 and sold to a private company. This brought it to London, where it opened as a naval museum until 1998, when it was moved to Folkestone, where it continued as a museum until 2004. Then it closed and was brought here, in the Medway estuary, where a future awaits it uncertain, although some say it would be restored. I hope so, would love to have more submarines nearby to visit!
Just in case, and considering its origin, this 2022, the owners will hang a Ukrainian flag there.
During the construction of Novopolotsk, architects and artists worked closely with each other. As a result of this cooperation, specialists from Vitebsk art workshops have created mosaics on a variety of topics on new houses. Despite the fact that some of the mosaics have already been destroyed, the total volume of mosaic panels in Novopolotsk remains one of the largest in the republic.
При строительстве г. Новополоцка архитекторы и художники плотно сотрудничали друг с другом. В результате этого сотрудничества на новых домах специалистами Витебских художественных мастерских появились мозаики на самые разные темы. Несмотря на то, что часть мозаик уже уничтожена, общий объём мозаичных панно в Новополоцке остаётся одним из крупнейших в республике.
Moscow. View on the Kotelnicheskaya embankment building. View from the Krasnokholmskiy bridge (Краснохолмский мост) I like the view from this spot and i'll keep on shooting this sight until i get photo that i'll really like. This is not perfect yet.
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