Without heavy weaponry and suffering heavy casualties, the Hungarians bravely held back the Soviet tanks with improvised methods for a while, but the odds in numbers and equipment were badly stacked against them. May God rest all the fallen soldiers on both sides.

Honved retreat, 1943

Hungarian tanks photographed in a Russian village during the summer of 1942.

Hungarian Tanks in Russia, 1942

As the Soviet forces moved closer, a veteran Hungarian artilleryman instructs his crew of teenage boys in operating the (Bofors 88?) artillery piece on the outskirts of Budapest, winter 1944-1945.