Casualties on both sides ran high. Axis wounded ultimately numbered in the tens of thousands. Many of them were treated in this Hungarian hospital located in the castle of Buda, carved into the rock, therefore called Sziklakorhaz or Rock Hospital.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: Military Hospital

The resupply of the besieged city was partially accomplished by aircraft, including gliders. An open field in Buda was one of the makeshift landing areas, shown here after the siege, with old gliders littering the foreground.

BUDAPEST SIEGE: Vermezo Landing Field

Arrow Cross and Honved officers called on the public to participate in the Hungarian capital's defense. Here two street- car conductors get ready to take a MG to a defensive position.