Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Hepetema 1939, ka uru te 51 ki te Runga o Ukraine mo te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Poland, engari kaore i kite i te pakanga. I whawhai te wehenga i te Pakanga o te Hotoke hei waahanga o te 7 o nga ope taua mai i te Hanuere ki te Paenga-whawha 1940. E rima nga hoia o te wehenga i whakawhiwhia ki te taitara Hero o te Soviet Union mo a raatau mahi i te pakanga. I te Pipiri 1940, i uru te wehenga ki te
Te noho a te Soviet o Bessarabia hei waahanga o te 14th Rifle Corps.I te 22 o Hune 1941, ko te wehenga tetahi waahanga o te 14th Rifle Corps o te 9th Army i te Rohe hoia o Odessa. I noho te wehenga ki te rohe o Danube Delta. I whawhai ia ki nga hoia Tiamana e haere ana i te Mahinga o München. I hoki mai ki te Prut ka hoki mai ki te Dniester tata ki Dubăsari. Na ka akina te wehenga ki te hoki ki te Bug ki te Tonga me te Dnieper i Kakhovka me Kherson. I te marama o Noema o te tau 1941, kei Donbass te wehenga. I te 16 o Noema, ko te wehenga, inaianei he waahanga o te 37th Army, i whakaeke i te huarahi o Pavlovka me Taganrog. I te 27 o Noema, i uru te wehenga ki te Pakanga o Rostov. Kaore te wehenga i pakaru tae noa ki te 29 o Noema ka anga whakamua ki Sultan-Saly. I te marama o Hanuere 1942, i whakawhitihia te wehenga ki te whawhai i te Mahi Barvenkovo-Lozovaya a kei runga i te Donets. I te mutunga o Hurae, i tangohia te wehenga ki Don me te taha o te Manych. I whakakorehia i te 16 o Akuhata, a, i whakawhitihia ona kaimahi ki etahi atu waahanga.