The V Corps was a

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of the

Royal Hungarian Army The Royal Hungarian Army (, ) was the name given to the land forces of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Kingdom of Hungary in the period from 1922 to 1945. Its name was inherited from the Royal Hungarian Honvéd which went under the same Hu ...

History

The V Corps participated in the

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invasion of Yugoslavia The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, was a Nazi Germany, German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II. The order for the invasion was put fo ...

during

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between 6–18 April 1941.
It didn't participated in

Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along ...

against the Soviet Union, but served as part of the Hungarian occupation force in Yugoslavia. In March 1944, it was stationed along the Danube River, between the mouth of the

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river and

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.Leo W.G. Niehorster
The Royal Hungarian Army 1920 – 1945, Volume I, Organization and History
p. 104 When the Soviets approached the border with Hungary, the V Corps was added to the First Hungarian Army on 4 August 1944 and deployed against the Soviets until the end of the war.Leo W.G. Niehorster
The Royal Hungarian Army 1920 – 1945, Volume I, Organization and History
p. 209

Commanders

*Major General Antal Silley (1 Aug 1939 – 1 Aug 1941) *Major General

Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Vitéz Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner (22 November 1890 – 5 November 1946) was a Hungarian military officer who had a significant role in the Novi Sad massacre during the Second World War. Military career After training at the artillery cadet ...

(1 Aug 1941 – 20 Aug 1942) *Major General Frigyes Gyimessy (20 Aug 1942 – 1 Aug 1943) *Major General Pál Platthy (1 Aug 1943 – 1 May 1944) *Major General Zoltán Algya-Pap (1 Sep 1944 – 15 Nov 1944) *Major General Miklós Nagyöszy (15 Nov 1944 – 17 Dec 1944) *Major General Mihály Ibrányi (17 Dec 1944 – 1 Mar 1945) *Major General József Vasváry (1 Mar 1945 – May 1945)

Notes

References

* Military units and formations of Hungary in World War II {{Hungary-mil-unit-stub