"Army Group South of field-marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, to which the Romanian forces were subordinated, was split in two by the Pripyat Marshes. Its main effort at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa had to be concentrated in the northern sector, while the forces in Romania had to wait for the offensive to penetrate deeper into the Ukraine in order to start the attack. This decision was taken by the OKH in the spring of 1941, because gen. Franz Halder considered the Prut River to be a serious barrier for a motorized assault and because the offensive potential of the Romanian troops wasn't considered appropriate by the German planners. That is why the vast majority of the German mechanized forces of Army Group South was concentrated in Poland, while on the Romanian front there were only the Romanian motorized units. As it was to be seen, the Prut River was not such a formidable barrier in the conditions of a surprise attack. The Romanian soldiers occupied several intact bridges from the early hours of the war. Probably a powerful offensive from the first day on the front in Moldavia would have caused serious problems to the Soviet Southwestern Front, which put up a powerful resistance to von Rundstedt's troops.
The forces that will take part in the operations in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were: the Romanian 3rd Army (the Mountain and Cavalry Corps) in the north, commanded by lt. gen. Petre Dumitrescu, in the center the German 11th Army of gen. Eugen von Schöbert (the German 11th, 30th and 54th Corps), and in the south, the Romanian 4th Army (the 5th, 3rd and 11th Corps) of lt. gen. Nicolae Ciuperca. In the Danube Delta was deployed the Romanian 2nd Corps, commanded by maj. gen. Nicolae Macici. All these formed the Antonescu Army Group. On 22 June 1941 the total number of Romanian soldiers in the first line was 325,685, distributed in 12 infantry divisions, one armored division, one reserve infantry division, one frontier-guard division, 3 cavalry brigades, 3 mountain brigades and 2 fortification brigades. The Wehrmacht had 5 infantry divisions on the Prut River.
The offensive power of the ARR (Aeronautica Regala Romana=Romanian Royal Aeronautics) was concentrated in the Combat Air Grouping (Gruparea Aeriana de Lupta), which had a total of 253 aircraft, out of which only 205 were available for action on 22 June. Their mission was to gain air supremacy over Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina and then support the offensive of the Romanian 4th Army. It was made up of 4 bomber groups (the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th) and 2 independent bomber squadrons (the 82nd and 18th), 3 fighter groups (the 5th, 7th and 8th), 4 observation squadrons (the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th) and one long range recon squadron (the 1st)…"
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