Kingdom of Romania - Rank flags - World War II

Last modified: 2004-07-03 by rob raeside
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• Air Transport and Marine Minister
• Under Secretary State Minister of the Navy
• Commander of the Navy as Vice Admiral
• Commander of the Navy as Rear Admiral
• Rear Admiral
• Commodore as flotilla/division chief
• Commodore as Commander of a small unit
• Seniority Pennant
• High State Officials
• Masthead Pennant

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• Romania
• Romania: Index of all pages

Like many nations that fought with Germany in World War II, Romania modified its symbolism in one way or another to either aid in identification or to emulate its German allies. Romania changed many of its rank flags from the tricolor to, for lack of a better phrase, a tricolor and cross. These are all based on images from the Flaggenbuch (1939).
Calvin Paige Herring, 3 January 1999

1:1, by Zeljko Heimer

A square flag vertically divided blue and red with a yellow cross throughout widening towards the edges, defaced in the middle with a white emblem of the Ministry. The emblem consists of wings, a shield of arms of Romania, an anchor with cable and the Iron Crown at the top.
From the image in Flaggenbuch (1939) I would hardly guess what was indeed in the shield of the emblem, but from Paige Herring provided images that made it rather obvious. I don't know if he had some other sources confirming it,