[lhamodb]

Hello to all, this is my first post. I read the above post with disbelief because my uncle was Doczy Laszlo, an engineer with MAORT the Hungarian American Oil Company (Standard Oil) before the war, but he was also a pilot in WW2. According to the family legend, he flew on the Don front with Horthy Istvan and was shot down in 1944 while piloting a Messerschmidt suffering severe hand and leg wounds. He was left with a hole in hand and was retired back to MAORT and died in Sept. 1944 of peritonitis as a complication of colorectal cancer in Budapest, and was interred at Hegyeshalom Hungary.

My question is this, were there two Doczy's, an old noble but relatively uncommon name, both military academy graduates and engineers who became pilots in the inter-war period, both getting shot down in 1944? I have always wondered if Lóránt/Loránd was not Laszlo's formal name? He was also called Geza....a middle name perhaps.

Laszlo's brother was Doczy Sandor, they were born in Tiszakurt/Cserkeszolo. Sandor was a Huszar with the K.u.K. 7th Kaiser Wilhelm II Huszar Regiment. He captured in Russia 1914. He earned the nagy ezüst erem /large silver bavery medal, was interned at Vladivostok, walking home from 1919 to 1921. His son, Doczy Sandor (Jr) was with the 3rd Battalion (Csegled) 2 Armored Division, and he suffered a severe head wound in Galacia, was captured in Austria and sent to Siberia returning in late 1947. He died at 40 of lung cancer.

I have a picture of my mother, Sandor's daughter and Laszlo's niece wearing Laszlo's főhadnagy uniform with 2 of 3 campaign medals from 1939-41....the picture is black and white so I cant tell by the ribbon color which they were though my mother thinks he served in all 3.

And does this also fit into the puzzle, "DÓCZY LÁSZLÓ (33 anjus): v. főhadnagy, a Margit körúti Katonai Bíróság hűtlenség, kémkedés vádjával halálra ítélte és az ítéletet 1950. július 12-én ugyanott végrehajtották"?

BTW, if these two people are one and the same, then the 8th aviator from the left, medium tall with googles standing squre to the photographer appears like Laszlo. he had black combed back hair that had prematurely turned white by 1944 like his brother's, and ice blue eyes.

Steve Doczy-Bordi