Word: galati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumania. Grey-green troops pouring down the Danube and over a dozen land routes rapidly brought the southward-moving Nazi "army of occupation" towards its announced strength of ten divisions (about 150,000). Three hundred tanks had arrived in the frontier zone opposite Soviet Bessarabia, and at Galati near the mouth of the Danube German naval experts were reported supervising the construction of a submarine base for underwater craft to be shipped from the Reich in sections.* To accommodate the Nazi influx, 120 trains were removed from passenger service on Rumanian railroad lines...