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About 100-150 persons were killed during the clashes and about twice as many wounded.”
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I apperciate your corrections and great thanks for it Denes, but from the mentioned document it is not so evident that (even in your English translation), there were given both side losses, reading English version, without it too, I still be "sure" that Gemans were only thinking about Hungarian losses.
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If you check out Chapter 7, you will find the following info:
"In total, Hungary recovered 12,171 square kilometres territory as Sub-Carpathia. The Hungarian Army paid for this gain with seventy-two dead, 144 wounded and three missing."
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This above losses concern whole Hunagraian combats in March 1939 versus: Czech 12. Division, Ukrainian's OUN partizans and last Slovak forces. Of coures there are no included no-regular Hungarian units involved in the combats?
In your book you had mentioned on p. 15: Hungarian land losses after Slovak air attack were as: 15 KIA and 30 WIA, plus a few destroyed or damaged vehicles.
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You mentioned that the aerial losses are well known, do you have any sources, I'm actually quite interested in the aerial operations of the conflict...
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The air clashes were very good done by several authors in the last 15 years or so. Texts were written in English and also in Polish, and in Czech and could be in Slovak language too, I think so.
You may find such information in SAFO's magazine in the last edition, where is text done by B. Kudlicka and R. Hofling: Air War over Ruthenia: Hungary vs. Slovak (SAFO vol 34, no 1. and no 2 from October 2010, the last one). In this last article (no 2) there are nice 16 photos section, but pity not good reproduced.
Personaly, I did similar article already 8 years ago:
Air War over CarpathianMountain (Slowak-Hungarian Air War in III 1939). Wojna powietrzna nad Karpatami (konflikt lotniczy węgiersko-słowacki 23-31 III 1939), p. 7 + 1 p. with 5 colours (CR.32 V.108 of 1./1 Fighter Flight, Ju 86 K-2 „B.350” of 3./5 Bomber Flight, He 70 K “F.409” of 1./2. Long Reccon Flight, Avia B.534, Letov S-328), + 12 b&w photos, [in:]
Militaria i Fakty 1/2002.
Similar book was edited in Poland by Andrzej Olejko but mostly written from Slovak perspective in 2002 (book edited pararell with my article). Olejko had colaborate with Slovak writer Jan Petrik on this book (Karpackie niebo 1939). Very good done research indeed, you could not dig deeper about Slovak side. This book is also about Slovak involvemnts in war in September 1939
There was also earlier the text done by P. Mujzer in the SAFO too in late 90. of XX c.
You may find many aditional information on H. Gustavsson's very good side Biplane Fighter Aces of WW II (pleny information about Slovak and Hungarian pilots who had fought in this conflict).
I do not know if D. Bernard, have written something on the same subject (he mentiones a few information in his Czech book about Hungarian Army, but very few information about air combats indeed).
So, there were some articles, books focused on this so "small and still unknow" subject of air war between Slovak and Hungary in March 1939. There are all: units structure, amounts, combats, claims, real losses, times of losses, all what one man can image and need.
Regards,
mirekw
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Becze Csaba had such project 2-3 years ago, but not yet realised, to edited with MMP a book about air comabts in March 1939. It was posponed, I think so and I do not know why? I do not see it again on MMP side. It is pity!?