With a supervisor looking on, a group of Honved infantrymen practice the "proper" stance for aiming and shooting a sidearm. A colored photo, shown earlier on this site by someone.

Hungarian Pistol Practice, WW2 Era

1st Lt. Boday-Csiszar Tibor, Royal Hungarian Army (Magyar Kiralyi Honvedseg) shown here somewhere on the Eastern Front. According to eyewitnesses, he was killed by a burst from a Russian submachine gun on February 1944, when he refused to surrender... He chose a hero's death over captivity in a Soviet labor camp for POWs. May he R.I.P. along with many other brave men.

On the Russian Front

The final resting place for Hungarian soldiers at Ostrogorsk, Russia, fallen in the summer and fall of 1942, during the initial battles by the Don River.