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The '''Hungarian First Army''' was a field army of the [[Royal Hungarian Army]] that saw action during [[World War II]].
 
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* Lieutenant-General [[Géza Lakatos]] - April 1, 1944 – May 15, 1944
* Lieutenant-General [[Károly Beregfy]] - May 15, 1944 – August 1, 1944
* Lieutenant-General [[Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak]] - July 25, 1944 – August 1, 1944 (acting)
* Lieutenant-General [[Béla Miklós]] von Dalnoki - August 1, 1944 – October 16, 1944
* Lieutenant-General [[Dezső Vitéz László|Dezső László]] - October 16, 1944 – May 8, 1945
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Under [[Regent of Hungary|Hungarian Regent]], Admiral [[Miklós Horthy]], [[Hungary]] was an [[Axis Powers|Axis]] state at the beginning of the [[Europe]]an conflict. On 1 March 1940, the [[Royal Hungarian Army|Hungarian Army]] formed three field armies. All three Hungarian armies saw action on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] against the [[Red Army]]. Unlike the [[Hungarian Third Army]] which took part in the [[invasion of Yugoslavia]] (1941) and the [[Hungarian Second Army]] that fought at the [[Battle of Stalingrad]] (1942), the Hungarian First Army did not see much combat at the start of the war.
 
The troops of the Hungarian First Army, like all Hungarian troops, were part of the one-million-plus non-German [[Axis troops]] on the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]. While the majority of these Axis troops were [[Romania during World War II|Romanian]], there were also significant contingents of Hungarians, Finns, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Italians, SlovakiansSlovaks, Croatians, Frenchmen, Danes, Norwegians, Belgians, and Spaniards.
 
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