Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A watan Afrilu na 1942, lokacin da aka kafa Rundunar Tank na 24, Burdeinei ya shiga shi a matsayin shugaban ma'aikata ga Janar Badanov. An aika da Corps don shiga cikin sojojin Jamus masu tasowa a kudanci, kuma kusan an shafe su a cikin fadace-fadace kusa da Kogin Don, a watan Yuli. A ƙarshen Oktoba, rukunin ya dawo daga asararsa bayan watanni da yawa a cikin ajiyar. An sanya shi zuwa Kudu maso Yammacin kuma ya shiga cikin yakin Stalingrad. A watan Disamba, Corps ya lalata Filin jirgin saman Tatsinskaya kuma an sake masa suna 2nd Tatsinskaya Guards Tank Corps don girmama wannan aikin. Bayan Yaƙin Stalingrad an sanya Corps wani ɓangare na Voronezh Front a watan Maris. A ranar 26 ga Yuni, 1943, Kanar Burdeinei ya karbi umarnin rundunar, yana rike da mukamin har zuwa karshen yakin. A matsayin haka, ya shiga cikin yakin Kursk.
, kuma an daukaka shi zuwa Manjo Janar a ranar 31 ga Agusta. A ranar 3 ga Yuli, 1944, a lokacin Operation Bagration, rukunoninsa sune na farko da suka shiga Minsk kuma suka 'yantar da garin. An daukaka shi zuwa mukamin Laftanar Janar a ranar 2 ga Nuwamba 1944. Daga baya Corps ya shiga cikin Baltic, Gabashin Prussia, Vistula-Oder da ayyukan Berlin. Saboda jagorancinsa a lokacin Minsk Offensive an ba shi lambar yabo ta Jarumi na Tarayyar Soviet (Lambar lambar yabo 5026) a ranar 19 ga Afrilu 1945.