The Tiger I E in Hungarian service.

It is rarely known, but Germany was not the only operator of the priceless Tiger. A batch of 13 were given to veterans of the Royal Hungarian army in the summer of 1944.

This was the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division (Pancelos Hadosztaly). They counted for a small portion of the Panzers already sent, mostly Panzer IVsand StuG IIIs, but proved themselves especially useful during the Soviet offensive in Galicia in July-August 1944, under the command of Colonel Ferenc Osztovics.