During July, 1941, as WW2 began, Kolomea, a recently Soviet occupied multi-national city, also claimed by Romania and even Poland, welcomes its Axis "liberation" as the Rapid Corps troops of Hungary make their headway toward the East.

Hungarian Army Welcomed in Kolomea, 1941

A small Honved cavalry unit on patrol somewhere in Axis occupied Galicia during 1941.

Hungarian Cavalry Patrol, 1941

Under the original "Compo" nameplate, this small warship was built in the Ganz Danubius shipyards of Budapest in 1916. About 44 meters long and 6 meters wide at midship, with a displacement of 133 tons, she was propelled by two Ganz steam turbines turning twin screws. Renamed as Győr in 1929, she was eventually equipped with two Bofors cannons and various machineguns, surviving WW2 and being scrapped in 1950. Whether small Hungary had needed "large" river warships, numbering around half a dozen during the Horthy era, had always been a debated issue.