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Research on Hungarian anti-partisan unit
Greetings!
I'm doing research on my father's WWII unit. He served in the Royal Hungarian Armoured Corps, Ist. Division, I. Tank Regiment, I. Battalion (written as 1/I Btn). His front service was in a unit raised by the 1/I (One-per-one) Btn, the 101. Tank Company. The unit appears to have been raised in late 1942, is definitely known to have been in occupied Russian in March 1943, and was disbanded when the R.H.Army II. Reserve Corps was recalled to Hungary in September 1944. They blew up their tanks around July-August due to lack of petrol. The unit consisted of 15 Hotchkiss H-38 and 2 Somua S-35 tanks, received from the Germans at the front. There was another Hungarian armoured anti-partisan unit, the 102. Independent Armoured Company, raised by the 1/II Tank Btn. They used 6 Hungarian-built Csaba armoured cars, and 6 Hungarian-built Toldi II light tanks and seem not to have been as succesful as the 101st Coy.
I'm looking for any scraps of information on the unit, whether mentions in history books, records or photos. I have one photo of a Somua in Poland, and one possible of a Hotchkiss, likely in Ukraine.
As there is so little information on the Hungarian Occupation Forces, anything on these would also be most welcome!
All and any help would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
P.S. I can't help feeling the term "Occupation Forces" was a better one than "Liberation Forces" for example. I am rather tired of "People's Glorious Liberation and Joyfulness Forces!" Then again, maybe I'm just an old cynic.
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