Whakakī i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 5 o Hōngongoi 1943 te whakaeke rautaki whakamutunga a Tiamana i te Rāwhiti (Operation Citadel) i whakatuwherahia me nga whakaeke ki nga pokohiwi raki me te tonga o te Kursk Salient. Ko te whāinga ko te hipoki me te whakangaro i te Central me Voronezh Front i te raki me te tonga o Kursk. I taua wa ko te ope taua 40, e noho ana i te mea i whakaarohia he waahanga marino o te raina o mua e anga ana ki te taha maui o te Tiamana Fourth Panzer Army, e whitu nga wehenga pupuhi me te tautoko patu. I te Pakanga o Kursk, i whawhai ai te ope taua hei waahanga o te Voronezh Front, i tukuna e ia etahi taapiri ki te 6th Guards Army hei awhina i te 6th Guards ki te pupuri i te 48th Panzer Corps, tae atu ki te 29th Tank Destroyer Brigade me te 1244th me te 869th Tank Destroyer Regiments, neke atu i te 100 nga patu patu patu. I whakawhitihia hoki e te ope taua 40 he perehitini tank ki te ope taua 38 i te wa ano. I muri i te pakanga, i uru ia ki te whiti o te Dnepr i te Mahuru 1943 i te taha o nga mahi rererangi. Kātahi anō ka uru te ope taua ki te
Ko te Pakanga o Kiev (1943) me te 1944, hei waahanga o te 2nd Ukrainian Front, nga mahi huri noa i te Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Kamenets-Podolsky pocket, me te Uman-Botoshany, Iassy-Kishinev, Bratislava-Brno, me te Prague Offensives. I whawhai ano hoki i te Pakanga o Debrecen, i reira, na te mea he iti te kaupapa, e rima noa nga wehenga i tohaina. I whakakorehia te ope taua 40 i te Hōngongoi 1945.