THE IMPETUS OF A FEW LOVE LETTERS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDRU D. PETCU, FORMER NAVAL OFFICER(I) Cover Image

IMBOLDUL CÂTORVA SCRISORI DE DRAGOSTE PENTRU RECONSTITUIREA BIOGRAFIEI LOCOTENENT-COLONELULUI ALEXANDRU D. PETCU, FOST OFIȚER DE MARINĂ (I)
THE IMPETUS OF A FEW LOVE LETTERS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDRU D. PETCU, FORMER NAVAL OFFICER(I)

Author(s): Iulian Stelian Boțoghină
Subject(s): Military history, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Editura Muzeului National al Marinei Romane
Keywords: Lieutenant-colonel Alexandru D. Petcu; love letters; Romanian military navy; World War II; Military Geographical Institute; military archives;

Summary/Abstract: A batch of love letters addressed to Alexandru D. Petcu, a naval officer turned geodetic officer, is the cause of the exploration of military archives to identify possible documents that would make it possible to reconstruct the officer's biography. The author of this article, which is the first of a series dedicated to this topic, exposes the chronological milestones of Alexandru Petcu's military career and sketches the portrait of the officer as he was seen and described by his commanders, information identified in the personal file kept in the military archives.

  • Issue Year: X/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 74-85
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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