Ia faaauau pea le suʻesuʻega o lenei palakalafa - Iā Iuni i le 1940, na faatoʻilaloina ai e le Iuni a Soviet Basarabia ma Northern Bukovina
. Ina ua uma ona avea le General (mulimuli ane Marshal) Ion Antonescu ma pule ia Setema 1940, na sainia e le Fascist Romania le Tripartite Pact ma le Axis Powers ma mulimuli ane auai i le Operation Barbarossa i le 1941. Na osofaʻia e se vaega o fitafita le Soviet Union i Bessarabia ma le itu i saute o Ukraine, faatasi ai ma le Wehrmacht. O le vaega o le 'Army Group Antonescu' na faia i le aso 22 o Iuni 1941 o le 3rd Army, le 4th Army, le 2nd Army Corps, ma le 11th Infantry Division. O le 3rd Army na aofia ai le 4th Army Corps (6th ma le 7th Infantry Divisions), o le Cavalry Corps, o le Mountain Corps, e lua vaega eseese o le autau, o se vaega TA, ma le Air Force's 3rd Army Cooperation Command. O le 4th Army na aofia ai le 3rd Army Corps, le 5th Army Corps, le 11th Army Corps (lua 'auʻaunaga malosi), ma le 4th Army Cooperation Command. O le vaega o le vaega o le vaega o le 2nd Army Corps, i lalo o le Major General Nicolae Macici, na pulea le 9th ma le 10th Infantry Divisions ma le 7th Cavalry Brigade. E lē gata i lea, na faavaeina ai le vaega a le 1st Armoured Division mo le auaunaga i le itu i Sasaʻe. O le osofaʻiga muamua a le Army Group, faatasi ai ma le Eleventh Army, Operation München, na mafai ai e Romania ona toe maua le teritori i le itu i sasaʻe o le Dnister, o se vaega muamua o Moldova. Na vaaia e le ʻautau a Romania a latou taua tetele muamua i Odessa ma Sevastopol, ma i le 1942 na latou agaʻi atu ai ma isi ʻau a le Axis i totonu o le teritori o le Soviet i le taimi o le Operation Case Blue. I le amataga o Novema, na faatoʻilaloina ai e fitafita o le ʻautau a Roma i lalo o le taʻitaʻiga a le Brigadier General Ioan Dumitrache, Nalchik, o le vaega pito mamao o le ʻau Axis i totonu o le Caucasus.