Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Mai i te timatanga o Operation Barbarossa i te 22 o Pipiri 1941, i whawhai a Arkhipov i te
Ko te Pakanga o Brody me te Pakanga Tuatahi o Kiev. Mai i Akuhata i whakahau ia i te 10th Tank Regiment o te 10th Tank Brigade, ana i te Tihema ka riro ia hei kaihauturu pirihimana. I tohua hei rangatira mo te 109th Tank Brigade, i hangaia i Voronezh, i te Paenga-whawha o te tau 1942, i arahina e Arkhipov hei waahanga o te 16th Tank Corps o te Bryansk Front i roto i nga pakanga whakahee ki te hauauru o Livny i te Pipiri me te Hurae, i te wa e toru nga ra e karapotihia ana. I te waenganui o Akuhata, i nekehia te 109 ki te Runga o Stalingrad, i uru ki nga whakaekenga ki nga hoia Tiamana i pakaru ki te Volga ki te raki-ki te hauauru o Stalingrad i te rohe o Kotluban me te 1st Guards Army, katahi ka whawhai i nga pakanga i roto i te waahanga. I te timatanga o Operation Uranus, i whawhai te piriti i te rohe o Vertyachy. I te marama o Hanuere 1943, i tukuna te 109 ki te Central Front, e whawhai ana ki nga whakaeke ki Fatezh me Krasny Sevsk.