Hungarian soldiers and officers listen to messages on a field radio, installed in a military car. In the background are an Sd.Kfz.253 armored vehicle of the observers and an ACS StuG III. assault gun.
   The photograph probably shows the men and equipment of the 30th Tank Regiment, 1st Armored Division of the 2nd Hungarian Army. - In the period from August to December 1942, the soldiers of the Hungarian Army have fought long battles in the area of Uryv and Korotoyak of the Don river bend, approximately 25 miles south of the city of Voronezh. 


Area of the Don river bend

Hungarian medium tank M40 "Turan I" with 40-mm gun in a tank park in the town of Mátyásföld, near Budapest, Hungary; 1943.  
The "Turan I" was armed with the standard Hungarian anti-tank and anti-aircraft gun, which used Bofors ammunition, supplied by Sweden and already available in large stocks. With the added armor, the maximum speed was reduced to 47 km/h (29.2 mph). However, the armor was not sloped and presented near-flat surfaces to incoming rounds. Production started at the end of 1941 and ended in 1943.


Hungarian medium tank

A group of Hungarian soldiers near the Church of St. Nicholas in the occupied city of Pryluky in north-central Ukraine, USSR; 1942.