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Uniforms,camo,ghilie and ammo pouches

Infantry

Reconnaissance

The Recon duty in the Hungarian army was performed by the Hussars,motorized infanty,and by the armored car units!

Uniform matches with the Infantry's, the only difference is the color of the rank insignia on the collar. Instead of green it was blue

Experimental camo

Mountain troops

Hussar uniform

Mechanized infantry

Mechanized infantry soldiers were also equipped with one 35.M haversack and a gas mask which they wore on the left side

Sapper

Rank insignia on the collar is dark green colored ("steel green"). The shoulder roll which prevented the weapon to slip off of the soldier's right shoulder is not part of the combat gear, neither the backpack. The combat gear included only the 35.M haversack and the gas mask.

Assault pioneer

Uniform is the same as the sapper's. Assault pioneers didn't have a 35.M haversack and gas mask but instead they had a grenade bag.

From 1943 they also wore an assault pioneer badge above their right breast pocket. The badge was on a dark green ("steel green") cloth which followed the badge's line and could be seen a little at the edge of the badge.

Officer

All Hungarian officers who commanded a unit up to regiment had a special "Commanding officer badge" which they wore on the right breast pocket. The cloth under the badge matched in colors with the rank insignia. In the picture the officer wears a blue rank insignia which means he's an officer of the Rapid units (hussar, motorized infantry, bicyle troops, motorbike troops, tank crews, armred car crews, armored train crews). Officers of the infantry branch (infantry, border guards, paratroopers, mountain troops) wore green rank insignias ("grass green"). The officer also wears spurs which means that he's a hussar officer, officers of other units didn't wear spurs. All battle unit commanding officers were equiped with a gas mask.

General

Paratroopers

Pilot uniform

Pilots used moultiple uniforms.

The one that they used till the end of the war was a beige colored union suit

Tank crew

Hungarian Tank crewmen used moultiple uniforms.

two part leather uniform,normal infantry uniform with textil sleeved leather jacket, pants+ jacket (union suit)

(Incase if the Nimrod only the driver wore tank crew uniform,the others had infantry uniform on)

 

Ammo pouches

Picture 1 (above):

ammo pouches for bolt-action rifles. The soldiers used mainly the 2 pouch - named as "douple pouch" - version but there were simple pouches as well - some single pouches were made with a more simple belt loop (left).

These pouches were based on the WW1-era ammo pouches and the design didn't change during the war.

The Royal Hungarian Gendarme had a slightly different ammo pouch that those of the Army - these pouches had a turnable hook instead of a button and were equipped with name tags (Gendarme version can be seen at the bottom).

One pouch could store 2 magazines in it and each soldier had 2 double pouches, that means an infantryman had 40 rounds at hand 5 more in the rifle. The metal square on the double pouch's back is there for the 35.M infantry carrying device's (http://live.warthunder.com/post/464770/en/) hook to be attached to.

 

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