Ioan Mihail Racovita (7 March 1889-28 June 1954) was a Major-General of Romania during World War II.
Biography[]
Ioan Mihail Racovita was born on 7 March 1889 in Bucharest, Romania. He was educated in the German Empire before serving as a cavalry officer in World War I, and he rose to Major-General in 1940, the same year that Romania entered World War II. He became the commander of the cavalry corps sent to fight against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, and he led Romanian forces at the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive. He died in 1954 after the war.