Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks and cavalry entered Bucharest without a fight, and Moscow was careful not to call it a "capture," since Rumania was now an ally. But in Moscow the event was saluted with 24 salvos from the full battery of 324 guns, and the Moscow radio told how the people of Bucharest "enthusiastically hailed" the newcomers and "threw flowers at our troops...
These phenomena were not confirmed by A.P.'s Joseph Morton, who was on the spot when the dusty, sweaty Reds drove their columns through the Bucharest streets. Said Morton: "Rumanians watching the spectacle had little to offer in the way of greeting, the great majority of them staring silently. Anxiety over the proximity of Russian troops was obvious among many of Bucharest's wealthier people...
...Ploesti-"the hottest target on the face of the earth"-two weeks before. He was one of more than 3,000 U.S. airmen downed in Rumania in 13 months of raids. Two-thirds had been killed. But 1,101, plus 25 Britons, were still alive in prison camps around Bucharest. They were well treated but they chafed...
Colonel Gunn told his story to General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and his U.S. air commander, Lieut. General Ira Eaker. They made a quick decision. Within twelve hours 38 Flying Fortresses were speeding toward Bucharest; more soon followed. At Bucharest's airport the bombers took aboard the 1,100-odd men and brought them back to Italy. Fifty were wounded, 17 on crutches and ten on stretchers. All were happy. So were their families in the U.S., who were promptly notified...
Rumanians Wheedle. In Bucharest, the people cheered dusty Red Army tankmen. Where the swastika had flown, placards shouted: "Long live Stalin...