Special units

Lighting units

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

In the winter of 1914, the Russian attack reached the line of the Carpathians. Most of Bukovina and Galicia fell ...
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Rekonvaleszentenhaus in the Shuttleworth Street

I recently received a very nice Kappenabzeichen with the caption on the title. I definitely wanted to know what kind ...
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Sturmtruppe – Assault troops 2.

Of the many special units, assault troops receive the most attention. Their badges are the most popular among badge collectors ...
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U-Boots – Submarines

The Navy of the Monarchy had the 6th strongest fleet at the outbreak of the Great War. The military command ...
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Assault troops

Books on the subject have been published, so it is difficult to write briefly about this topic. The Russians started ...
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Count Radetzky Hospital

Detecting the background of hospital badges is always very difficult. I haven’t found a regular record of military hospitals similar ...
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China Batteries

There’s relatively little knowledge about the China batteries. At least, I barely found out anything. By browsing through the volume ...
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“Airwalker” troops

Or, in today’s parlance, air force. One of the young and rapidly evolving branch of the Great War. By this ...
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Zita Hospital

In 1898 the Hungarian Royal Honvéd Command built a garrison hospital on Gyáli Street in Budapest. In 1914, due to ...
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