Special units

This was a truly special troop, as among the innovations of the age, in addition to motorization, the muscle driven ...

The Austro-Hungarian Navy was the sixth strongest in the world on the eve of the Great War. The development of ...

The sapper troop of the Monarchy was created by the reorganization of the technical troops in 1912. Previously, pioneer battalions ...

Eduard Fischer was a descendant of a landowner family in Bukovina, born in 1862. After military training, from 1891 he ...

This badge was placed in the special units category due to several oddities. The 29th Infantry Regiment was organized in ...

It is not necessary to explain at length that the movement of armies of many hundreds of thousands is a ...

Dragoons can be included among special units through their historical traditions. In the past, there were several types of cavalry ...

Giving the ultimate last honor to those who fell in battles was often very difficult or impossible during the Great ...

In the excellent post of Miklós Szanyi (here) we could read about the formation of the spotlight branch, and here ...

The Great War brought the development of many kinds of technical innovations. The best known were obviously the largest and ...