1. HUNGARIAN TROOP UNITS 2. HUNGARIAN SERVICE COLORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500510009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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In vv 1950 the parachute company of the 2-5th Rifle Regt practiced parachute
f=_ l apolca ~! 4/D 35) airfield. Source learned in late December
that a parachute unit was stationed in Tapolca. A soldier of the 25th
Rifle Reet in the tent camp at Csolcas Frdoe ezokas Woods) volunteered for,
s r a -Igned to, a parachute unite in Tapolca in late August 1950.
c fice course e.ncom rising about 500 trainees who wore no rank or branch-
~.: i ,gnia, was conducted at Tapolci `.n late May 1950. Following
to w e t jnin the jgraduates were commissioned as junior
lieutenants up to captains depending on their individual qualification.
Prior to 20 October 1950, a field artillery unit of about 500 men was located
in the area scateast of-the tent camp of the 25th Rifle Regt at the
solids wocd,s nom ?r gykoeroes Q O76 06). This unit was previously station-
at Pa ' 8
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) or Baja (Y 6/S 28). * ILLEGIB
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. Several months later he was transferred to Pecs (! 5/B 22),
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&,, in the fall of 1950, to Kaposvar tY 4A 95). He served with a
~reconnais_Sanee unit and wore blue service color. A member of the 19, l class,
who had vol teered for service in ?? ay 1950, served with an infantry officer
candidate achool in Pecs at the end of December 1950. The officer course
Pecs lasted for two years. The soldier wore yellow-bordered green
epaulets. A mixnber of the 1930 class was inducted at Marcali (Y 4/A.68)
on 24 October 1950 and according to his father, transferred to an infantry
unit in Baja (Y 6/S 281 in December 1950. Another soldier who wore dark-blue
epaulets served with a signal unit in Baja in late December 1W.
Accordin to a soldier on furlough, a field artillery unit was stationed in
Eger (R &/Y 55) in late December 1950.
Prior to 28 December 1950) a military hospital was located at 1 Kiralyhago
Street in Budapest.XI.
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6. Infantry troops wore green epaulets; infantry officers and NCOs also wore
collar patches.
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*'M border troops wore light-green epaulets, cavalry troops light-yellow
epaulets, field artillery troops red epaulets, AAA troops white bordered
r epaulets, tank troops blue epaulets, signal troops dark-blue epaulets,
pare' ute_ troops white bordered green epaulets, air force troops white-
bordered blue eiaau ts, river guard troops dark blue or black epauaLiets.
and supply troops claret epaulets.
25X1 ' A mot,Q 'i e-d artillery regiment was stoned in Papa up to
25X1 A SMCF ? See . Elements of this unit were probably detached
as skeleton unit for the activation of artijje _ # o a .division in
"a ja-9is` toeroes-Szeged area. See also 25X1 A
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a0#._&ftU1 of- in ix antsy regiment wear the service colors of their
specific branch. Infantry units, possibly regiments, are b lieved to be
stationed in r"arcali and Baja.
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