Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I muri i te pakarutanga o Operation Barbarossa i te Pipiri 1941, i mahi a Polynin hei rangatira mo te 13th Bomber Aviation Division i te Western Front. I roto i nga ahuatanga tino uaua o nga marama tuatahi o te pakanga, me te kore e tika te kapi rererangi, i kaha tana roopu ki te whawhai ki nga ope Tiamana i nga Pakanga o Białystok <unk> Minsk me Smolensk, i te wa e nui ana nga ngaronga. Mai i Akuhata 1941, i tohua ia hei rangatira mo nga waahanga o te Air Force i te Bryansk Front, i te wa i uru ai ia ki te Roslavl<unk>Novozybkov Offensive me te Pakanga o Moscow. I te marama o Mei 1942, i tohua ia hei Kaiwhakahaere Tuarua o te 2nd Air Army i Bryansk Front, ana mai i te Mahuru 1942, i tohua ia hei Kaiwhakahaere Tuarua o te 6th Air Army o te Northwestern Front ana i te 1943, i tohua ia hei rangatira mo te 6th Air Army. I te Hui-tanguru 1944, i whakawhiwhia te waahanga ki te 2nd Belorussian Front ka uru ki nga pakanga o Demyansk, Starorusskaya, Nevel
, Polesskaya, me te Operation Bagration.