THE GENDARMES COMPANY FROM COVURLUI BETWEEN
THE YEARS OF 1940-1941 Cover Image

Legiunea de jandarmi Covurlui în perioada 1940-1941
THE GENDARMES COMPANY FROM COVURLUI BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1940-1941

Author(s): Marcel Ioan
Subject(s): Military history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Liceul Vasile Conta Târgu-Neamț
Keywords: Gendarmerie; concentration; enemy; bombs; war;

Summary/Abstract: The history of the Covurlui Gendarmerie, especially the Covurlui GendarmeLegion was for a quite short time in the attention of the researchers and this offers theopportunity to a brief study regarding the organization and implication of the CovurluiGendarme Legion between 1940 and 1941, by researching novel documents. In some of thesedocuments, we can see that the Covurlui Gendarme Legion was part of the 3rd GendarmeRegiment of the Lower Danube. This gendarme unit was used for important missions, helpingthe army, such as organizing the police shifts to help the operative units, police chekpoints,escorting prisoners, guarding the command centers, fixed and mobile guards, traffic control,accompanying military convoys, fighting against the paratroopers etc

  • Issue Year: 2/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 230-235
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian