We'll join in! Women beneath the flags of and in the uniforms of the Vierbund of Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Bulgaria, are willing to play their part in the war effort.
Wir machen mit!We'll join in!Reverse:Dated Augsburg, February 3, 1916
"At 7:30 A.M. on the second day, construction of the pontoon bridge began. It was completed in less than 24 hours, so that on 25 and 26 November the remaining infantry, the cavalry, and the artillery crossed. In contrast to Flămânda, the bridge and crossing at Zimnicea were not threatened by hostile warships or mines."
Four infantry divisions — two Bulgarian, one German, and one Turkish — and one cavalry division, nearly 100,000 men in total, began crossing the Danube River from Bulgaria into Romania near Zimnicea by boat on November 23, 1916. The pontoon bridge hastened the crossing which put the Central Power forces 130 kilometers southwest of the Romanian capital of Bucharest. The 'Flămânda Maneuver' was an aborted Romanian effort from two months earlier. The Romanians attempted to strike the rear of the German-Bulgarian-Turkish army then advancing northwards into the eastern Romanian region of Dobruja. On September 30, 1916, the 10th Romanian Division began crossing the Danube into Bulgaria, but less effectively than the invaders did in November. On October 1, German planes had bombed the Romanian pontoon bridge; on the 2nd, the Austro-Hungarians had released mines that floated downriver into it. The Romanians soon ended their misadventure.
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn E. Torrey, page 137, copyright © 2011 by the University Press of Kansas, publisher: University Press of Kansas, publication date: 2011
1916-11-24, 1916, November, Romania, Danube
