Hungary - World War Two

page generated: April 16, 2003

compiled by Allan Magnus

References:

1. Researcher Denes Bernad
2. Hungarian Aces of World War 2, Osprey Aircraft of the Aces #50, Gyorgy Punka, Osprey Publishing, London 2002
3. Hungarian Eagles The Hungarian Air Forces 1920-1945, Gyula Sarhidai, György Punka & Viktor Kozlik, Hikoki Pub.,Aldershot UK, 1996
4. A "Messzer" Bf 109-ek a Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légieroben, György Punka, Orszagos Muszaki Infornacios Kospont es Konytvar (OMIKK), Budapest, Hungary 1995

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Hungarian Aces:
For the Hungarian aces, I have used the format where individual and shared claims are 
shown as separate entries.

This latest update was from the book, Hungarian Aces of World War 2, 
Osprey Aircraft of the Aces #50 by Gyorgy Punka.

I have found that this book has not done much to clear up the confusion regarding the
scores for the Hungarian aces of World War Two. The book has numerous inconsistencies.
For example, on page 85 of the Appendix there is the victory list of László Molnár,
which if tallied comes to 22 individual plus 1 shared (consisting of 17 Soviet and
5 plus one shared US). But, in the text on page 57, he is credited with 25.5 kills
(18 Soviet plus 7 and one shared US) at the time of his death in action on 7/Aug/1944.

This and other similar inconsistencies makes for a confusing book. Thus the changes 
incorporated into this list from this source consists only of what is contained in the
Appendix for pilot victories.