Special units

Train troop
The train troop was a branch that dealt with the material supply of the combatant formations. All means of transport ...

Air defense
Contemporary air defense as an artillery branch was born in the Great War. As the use of the airplane as ...

Phone operators
From the point of view of the effective leadership of the troops, it was crucial in the Great War to ...

Areal combat
The use of airplanes on the battlefield in the major combatant countries of the Great War developed rapidly. Over the ...

Mountain troops’ badge
Another long-awaited post by my friend Gábor Széplaki. The plant with star-shaped inflorescences, the snow weed (Edelweiss), is mostly found ...

Red assault troop (?)
The assault battalion of the 51st Infantry Division had one of the most attractive cap badges made. The insignia of ...

Zsófia Military Hospital
One of the most beautiful badges about which we know very little. During the Great War, a huge medical capacity ...