Siege of Madrid
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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War.
Nationalist soldiers raiding a suburb, March 1937
Civilians running away from an unexploded shell.
A bomb crater near Puerta del Sol.
Nationalist aircraft bomb Madrid in late November 1936. Fiat CR 32s, flown by Italian pilots, provide fighter cover.
Ion Moța
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Ion I. Moța was the deputy leader of the Romanian fascist Legionary Movement, killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War.
Siege of Madrid
…Enrique Varela José Moscardó Ituarte Mohamed Meziane Juan Yagüe Carlos A. Cabanillas Rolando de Tella Antonio Castejón Francisco A. Delgado Hugo Sperrle Ion Moța † Vasile Marin † Strength 42,000 50 tanks 70 guns 20,000 30 tanks 120 aircraft Casualties and losses ~5,000 dead or wounded (including civilians) ~5,000…
Ion Mota portrait
Funeral march for Ion Moța and Vasile Marin
Romanian postage stamps from 1941
Photograph of Ion Moța