[1] After Romania entered World War II on the side of the Axis, Răscănescu fought on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Red Army.

After the Romanian front was broken in November 1942 at the Battle of Stalingrad, Răscănescu and his battalion managed to escape encirclement, being the only formation of Lascăr's division to do so.

Covering a distance of 140 km (87 mi) in three nights and one day, the battalion succeeded in getting to the Chir River with all its soldiers and equipment, and prevented the Soviet 8th Cavalry Division from capturing the vital German airfield at Oblivskaya from November 26 to December 3.

After Romania switched sides in the wake of the coup d'état of August 23, 1944, he fought in the fall of 1944 in Transylvania against the retreating German troops.

[4] In July 1958 he was arrested by the Communist authorities, and he was sentenced in February 1959 to 10 years of forced labor for "trying to overthrow the political order."