Don Bend book 1942

[Mirek Wawrzynski]

Hi
This Hungarian armour book is as for the last your post lacking some information about Hungarian armour units in 1939-41, like "combats" in March 1939 against Slovak, re-"capture" or liberation of Transylwania in summer 1940; in April 1941 against Yugoslavia - very short, Csabas and Toldis - and the bigger part of armour history cocnerning Fast Brigade on the East in VI-XI 1941. The last one was real, hard war.

In fact there are difficoult to say about "real panzers 1939-41" but there were some armours in these military actions involved (mostly CV-33 Ansaldo, Csaba armoured car, and many Toldi tanks in 1940-41 = very light or light armour as you compare them to T-34 or KV-1, KV-2 as on 1941 or with German Pz.III, Pz.IV.

All the best,
Mirek W

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Mirek,

I wrote in my last post, that "brief history of the Hungarian armoured units in combat from 1939-45". That material does contain info about the Hungarian armour in March, 1939, which was their baptism of fire as well and about April and summer/autumn, 1941, about the Yugoslav and first Soviet campaign of the Fast Corps (many unpublished details even for Hungarians). No info about 1940 summer, because there were not any engagements between the Hungarian and Romanian armour at this time (just few firefights and especially against the Iron Guard, but the armour units not took part in these sporadic events).

It is nice, that you are interested in that project as well, but it is a topic for the Don bend book, not for the armour material (which not contains aviation details as my other materials did, so I'll not mention here, if these book will be available and will not post more details about it). I am sure, that you can find more info about that book in the MMP site soon.