Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I muri i te tiimata o te Operation Barbarossa (Hune 1941), i raro ano i te whakahau a te 6th Army, te XXXXIV Army Corps, i hangaia e te 9th, 262nd, 297th me te 57th Infantry Divisions, i whakahaerehia i te Southern Bug, ka mau ki a Sokal me Krystynopol. I te Pakanga o Brody (1941)
, i whakaekea te XXXXIV Corps ki nga whakaeke kaha a te Soviet 15th Mechanized Corps. Whai muri i te whakaeke, ka haere tonu te haere ki Koziatyn.