Tűzkereszt means “Fire Cross”, a Hungarian military decoration awarded for front-line combat service between 1941 and 1943.

Hungarian Military History Archive

An online archive preserving Hungarian and Austro-Hungarian military history through original photographs, awards, documents, and research material.

ESTABLISHED 2010

2012-08-19


István Horthy de Nagybánya
(1904 - 1942)

In the early morning of August 20, 1942, István Horthy few his air-plane for his final mission.
70 years ago, he died in an unexplained air-plane crash over the front near the village of Aleksejevka in Russia.
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