Hungarian soldiers in front of a Royal Hungarian Army 40-mm Nimród self propelled anti-aircraft gun. It was primarily utilized against lightly armored vehicles and for air defense; 1942/43 photo.    

Don River Front, USSR.

Hungarian troops in the vicinity of a 39M Csaba armored car in Ukraine (1941)
Hungarian produced armored vehicle Csaba (pronounced Cha-bah) was an armored car, used by the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II. They were used as actual fighting vehicles, command cars and reconnaissance vehicles. The armament consisted of a 20 mm Solothurn anti-tank rifle and an 8 mm machine gun.

Augmentation to the war effort

Hungarian member of a tank crew posing by his tank; Eastern Front.

Waiting for the baptism of fire...

Hungarian soldiers are photographed at a Soviet T-28 medium tank, abandoned on the side of a road on the Eastern Front; 1941.

Abandoned enemy tank

Hungarian soldiers at a captured Soviet pillbox and a Maxim machine gun; Somewhere on the Eastern Front, 1941.

Captured fort with its weapon

Hungarian soldiers place a wounded man on a cart to be taken to the rear for treatment of his injuries; Soviet-German Front, 1942.

Wounded Hungarian soldier

Hungarian soldiers receive felt boots to help to cope with the cold weather on the Soviet-German Front; Winter 1942.

To prevent frost bite

Hungarian soldiers receive gift packets of alcohol and cigarettes, away from home, on the Eastern Front; Summer, 1942.

Morale booster gifts

A small group of Hungarian soldiers pose next to a Rába Botond (probably M38) all-terrain military truck, somewhere in the USSR; 1942.

Soldiers with a Rába Botond

Hungarian infantry somewhere on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Pause in combat activity

Hungarian soldiers follow a truck with the body of a deceased colleague before the burial ceremony on the Soviet-German (Eastern) Front; 1942.

Farewell to a fallen comrade

A Hungarian soldier stands on the road by a crashed Soviet I-16 (Ilyushin) fighter, somewhere in Russia; November 1941. 

Crashed enemy plane

Hungarian soldiers at the grave of sergeant (Őrmester) Istvan Kemeny in the village of Ternovoye, Ostrogozhsky district, Voronezh region; Russia, July 1942.

Grave of a fellow soldier

Hungarian soldiers near the 40-mm Nimród World War II Hungarian selfpropelled anti-aircraft tank, on the grounds of  Ferenc József infantry barracks on  Üllői út 133-135 in Budapest. Originally, it was intended to be used as an anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapon, but it proved to be ineffective against Soviet T-34 tanks.  In the background, behind the railway embankment, is the Church of the Holy Cross (Szent Kereszt-templom); 1942.

"Nimrod" selfpropelled gun

Hungarian soldiers eat from their mess-kit while sitting on the armor of a 40-mm ZSU 40M "Nimrod" self-propelled anti-aircraft gun; Eastern Front, 1942.

Grab a meal on top of an AA gun

A Hungarian soldier armed with a German MP-40 submachine gun poses for the camera in front of a bunker on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Left-handed soldier with a fur hat

A battery of Hungarian 105-mm light field howitzers fires at the Soviet troops somewhere on the Eastern Front; 1942.

A barrage on the enemy

A Soviet soldier performs a song to the delight of visiting Hungarian officers and fellow POWs in a prisoner of war camp on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Happy in Hungarian captivity

Hungarian soldiers carry a coffin with the body of a deceased comrade during a burial ceremony on the Soviet-German Front; 1942.

Farewell to a comrade in arms

A group photo of Hungarian servicemen celebrating Christmas on the Soviet-German Front. They stand in front of a 40-mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun "Nimrod" (40M Nimród).

A drink and a tiny Christmas tree

Hungarian soldiers guard Soviet POWs on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Captured Soviet soldiers

Hungarian tank crews in practical training on the Pz. Kpfw. VI Tiger tank by members of the Schwere Panzer-Abteilung (German 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion). At the end of the training, ten Tiger tanks were transferred to the Hungarian army; Ukraine, May 1944.

Training on the Tiger

Hungarian motorcycle couriers or scouts somewhere on the eastern front near Kharkov in the winter of 1942 in a mask covering their faces due to the extreme cold

Freeze

Hungarian soldiers at the Schwarzlose MG M.7/12 anti-aircraft machine gun in Yugoslavia; 1941.

During the return of Southern Territories

Unknown type of Hungarian small tanks on their way to Тячів [Tyachiv] Ukraine
The picture is a good example of the fact that the equipment of the Hungarian army would not have been adequate even in the First World War, not least in the Second World War
It is incomprehensible why the german Reichkanzlei Adolf Hitler and the hungarian Governor Miklós Horthy why did not realize this fact



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