Deadly Diversion (EF II) DAR

[Cole]

Besides wanting to say "excellent AAR" again I tried to look up the battle in my copy of The Royal Hungarian Army by Leo Niehorster. The chapter that deals with the 1942/43 Soviet Campaign doesn't mention this bridgehead and I guess the reason is that this was in the German 2nd Army sector. The book mentions the bridgeheads further south in the 2nd Hungarian Army sector at Uryv, Karotyak, and Stutye.

It seems your Pz-38 light tanks were just received from the Germans right before this offensive. If you have 47mm AT guns they were originally captured from the Belgians. The book mentions that the German's priority was to supply the Romanians and I guess the Hungarians got the left overs.

In the battle for the Uryv Bridgehead further south the Hungarians had PZ-IV Ausf. F1 (short 75mm gun) tanks that the Germans had given them and the Hungarian tankers "...were not in awe of the Soviet T-34 tanks, and had learned well from the German instructors. when the T-34's stopped to fire, cannon smoke blinded the tank crew, so that the Hungarian tankers could attack from the sides and rear, and thereby managing to destroy 21 T-34s without any losses of their own tanks".