Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I tiimata te wehenga i tona hitori hei 13th Tank Corps o te ope taua Whero, i hangaia i te Paenga-whawha 1942 i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao ka whawhai i te whakaeke a te Soviet ki a Case Blue, te Pakanga o Voronezh
, me te Pakanga o Stalingrad. I ngaro te tokomaha o nga taakaha i te ope, i whakahoutia ano ki te hanganga o te ope miihini i te marama o Noema, ahakoa i mau tonu te tohu 13 Tank Corps. Mo ana mahi ka huri te roopu ki te 4th Guards Mechanized Corps i te timatanga o te tau 1943 ka whiwhi i te honore honore o Stalingrad. I haere tonu ia ki te whawhai i te nuinga o te toenga o te pakanga, i whakawhiwhia ki te Order o te Tohu Whero mo tana mahi i te Nikopol<unk>Krivoi Rog Offensive o te timatanga o te tau 1944, te Order o Suvorov, te reanga tuarua mo ana mahi i te Odessa Offensive, me te Order o Kutuzov, te reanga tuarua mo ana mahi i te Tuarua Jassy<unk>Kishinev Offensive. I nga marama whakamutunga o te pakanga i anga whakamua te ope ki Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, me te tonga o Czechoslovakia i mua i te wehenga atu ki te rahui.