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Introduction and Storyline
(Előszó és a Történet)

AAC BG Mission Narratives
(Bombázók bevetési jelentései)

AAC BG Mission Orders
(Bevetési parancsok)

Aircraft Downed in Hungary
(Kényszerleszállás Magyarországon)

460th BG Escape Statements
(460-as Bombázó Csoport Két menekülés leirása)

BG Mission Lists
(Bombázó csoportok bevetési listája)

Harrison Flats
(Harrison Sík)

S-2 Sees It Through  
(S-2 gondoskodik mindenről)

Newspaper Accounts
(Ujságcikkek)

A Great Miracle
(Egy nagy csoda)

Rededication
(A templomszentelés)

Reflections
(Elmélkedések)

Two Great Organs
(A székesegyház orgonái)

Church Bells Sound Recording
(Hangfelvétel)

The Final Chapter
(Utolsó Fejezet)

Memories of September 1947
(Emlékek 1947-ből)

3/4/15 Service Announcement
(Meghívó esti misére 2015, III. 4.)


Lost Art and Frescos
(Elveszett műkincsek és freskók)


YouTube movie of Cathedral story

Updated bomb damage photo gallery

8 Photo Essays

2018
Hungarian Translation of English Mission Orders for 3-4-1945. pdf
55th. Bomb Wing Report of March 1945. pdf
Photo Album: Personal Photos of Base Activity fm. 16mm Microfilm
Movie: Winter on the Danube - 3 mins. w/music
2019
6 photo-essays about the 1944 Normandy Landings
2020
Air Force Magazine - 3 Years Over Europe
2021
The London Blitz - Part 1
Their Finest Hour speech
2022
V-1 and V-2 Vengeance Weapons Used on England
2023
A Soldiers Photo Album

New! 2023
John F. Kennedy Assassination

Photo Albums
(Fénykép album)

Marian Celebration Photo Album
(Mária Ünnepe Fénykép album)
Links
(Linkek)

Marian Celebration Photo Album

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[Photo] Clergy leaving Szombathely Cathedral after the rededication. [Photo] Schola Cantorum Sabariensis (choir) entering the main square. [Photo] high school girls in traditional folk costume (the Hangya Building is in the background).
Clergy leaving Szombathely Cathedral after the rededication; Schola Cantorum Sabariensis (choir) entering the main square and high school girls in traditional folk costume (the Hangya Building is in the background).

[Photo] Part of 100,000 faithful on the main square in Szombathely. [Photo] Procession on Szécsenyi Street. [Photo] The Holy Trinity Column on the square.
Part of 100,000 faithful on the main square in Szombathely; the procession on Szécsenyi Street and the Holy Trinity Column on the square.

[Photo] Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty, Primate of  Hungary. [Photo] Cardinal Mindszenty (3rd from the right) and Bishop Sándor Kovács, Cathedral Diocesan Bishop (4th from right). [Photo] Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty leaving the Bishop’s Palace for the Cathedral’s Rededication Service next door (to his left).
Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary; Cardinal Mindszenty (3rd from the right) and Bishop Sándor Kovács, Cathedral Diocesan Bishop (4th from right); Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty leaving the Bishop’s Palace for the Cathedral’s Rededication Service next door (to his left).


      This website is dedicated to describing the events of Sunday, March 4, 1945 over the city of Szombathely, Hungary. Footnotes, references and historical documents will be added to the site as translations become available. The readers' interest and help with translations would be most appreciated - in both English and Hungarian.

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