Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I hangaia te reima i te marama o Mei 1938 hei 12th Fighter Aviation Regiment, he waahanga o te 69th Fighter Aviation Brigade, i te rohe hoia o Kiev i te papa rererangi o Kirovohrad mai i te 16th Separate Fighter Squadron. I te tīmatanga i rite rawa ki te Polikarpov I-16 me Polikarpov I-15bis. I whawhai ia i te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Poland, i reira i pupuhi ai i tetahi rererangi Polani. I te Paenga-whawha 1940, ko Kapene Pavel Terentyevich Korobkov, he Toa o te Soviet Union me te Pakanga Tangata Paniora e rere ana, i riro hei rangatira mo te ope. I te marama o Hune, i whakaratohia e te reimana te taupoki hau mo te
Te noho a te Soviet ki Bessarabia. I te Hōngongoi 14, i whakawhitihia te rerenga ki te 15th Mixed Aviation Division. I noho hei waahanga o te 64th Fighter Aviation Division i te 5 o Hanuere 1941. I te 22 o Hune, ka pupuhi a Lieutenant Leonid Grigoryevich Butelin i tetahi Junkers Ju 88 ka patu i tetahi atu i runga i te Ivano-Frankivsk Airfield i a ia e rere ana i te I-153, ko nga patu tuatahi o te pakanga. I mate a Butelin i roto i te taran, na te mea i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Order of the Red Banner. I whawhai te pu i te Pakanga o Kiev ka tukuna ki muri mo te whakahou. I whakawhitihia ki te 11th Reserve Fighter Aviation Regiment ka whakahoutia ki nga toa LaGG-3 hou i Rostov-on-Don i te Oketopa. Ko nga nekehanga a Tiamana i akiaki i te reimana ki te wehe ki Kirovabad i Azerbaijan SSR ki te haere tonu ki te whakangungu i te Noema. I muri i te whakaoti i te whakahou, i tukuna te reimana ki te Crimean Front hei waahanga o te 72nd Fighter Aviation Division ka whawhai ki te Parenga o Sevastopol. I te 26 o Tihema, i whakaingoatia te rerenga hei 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment. I roto i te ono marama o te whawhai, i mahia e te 12th IAP nga rerenga 2,607, i pupuhi i nga waka rererangi 75 ka whakangaro i nga waka rererangi 97. I ngaro te 61 o nga waka rererangi me te tekau o nga paerata i mate.