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Abstract: In the complex geopolitical situation that led to the dismantling of Great Romania, after the onset of World War II, the fundamental objective of the Romanian State Policy was the restoration, including on the way of arms, of the Borders History and enshrined in the peace treaties of the years 1919-1920. At this effort, the Romanian Royal aeronautical role was decisive, the 53 Fighter squadron of the Air Combat group, endowed with Hawker Hurricane aircraft, covered with glory, bearing 1/3 of the total air victories of Military aviation in the air operations for the liberation of Bessarabia and the conquest of Odessa.
Key words: Squadron 53 Hunt, Hawker Hurricane, aerial wins.
The beginning of the Second World War through the invasion of Poland from Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 generated a very special political-strategic situation at the level of the European and world continent, including for our country.
At the outbreak of the World War, the Romanian military corps was on the road of modernising procurement with weapons and combat technology and its structures. In the political-strategic situation of the last decade of August 1939, with the nationally threatened borders converging, without the possibility of firm external support, the Bucharest decisionmaking forums considered that, in the event of a war being triggered, neutrality was the only solution for Romania.
The territorial partition in the summer of 1940, following the Soviet Ultimatum at the end of June, which led to the loss of Bessarabia, northern Bukovina and Herta County, the Vienna dictate of 30 August 1940, whereby the Northwest Transylvania was ceded to Hungary, as well as the failure of Romanian-Bulgarian talks in Craiova in September 1940, followed by the handover of Bulgaria's quadrilateral, had particularly serious consequences for Romania's defence capacity, the area, the national economy, but the country's population is also reducing about 1/3.
Romania's geographic-military unity was also severely affected. Natural obstacles that represented strong defensive alignments-the Apuseni mountains, the Oriental Carpathians, the Dniester-were in the abducted territories the occupation of Transylvania practically annihilated the strategic value of Transylvania and implanted Hungarian troops at the passes of the Carpathians.
Stripped of about 1/3 of the national defence potential, Romania was forced, starting in the autumn of 1940, to make special...