Hungarian tanks captured by Maj. Perfilov's soldiers. 2nd Ukrainean Front, 1945.




Captured Hungarian armor

As a component of the Second Hungarian Army, the soldiers of Company 13 are bid farewell at the Miskolc railroad station, leaving their home bases in Rozsnyo and Miskolc in northern Hungary, and heading into the distant cauldron of the Don front of Russia.

Honved Company 13 Departs from Miskolc, 1942

As the Red Army attacks continued in February, 1943, Hungarian infantry withdrawal was coupled with a tank counter attack -- too few tanks in numbers and coming too late.