Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Janairun 1943 ya kammala karatun mai ba da hanya daga Brigade na Jirgin Sama na 3 wanda ke da tushe a Saratov kuma an tura shi zuwa Rundunar Sojan Sama ta 27 a matsayin mataimakin kwamandan rundunar. Baya ga yin aiki a matsayin mataimakin kwamandan kwamandan ya yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da jirgin sama da kwamandan rundunar a kan manufa; daga baya aka karɓi sunan Gardi kuma aka sake masa suna na 129th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment a watan Oktoba 1943. Ya bambanta kansa a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe a kan Voronezh da Steppe fronts da kuma a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Kursk
, Dnieper, Kirovograd, Korsun Shevchenko, Umansko-Botoshanskoy, da kuma Lvov-Sandomir. A ranar 14 ga Mayu 1943 ya buge wani jirgin sama mai saukar ungulu na Junkers Ju 87 tare da Yak-1 a kan Gostishchevo, Belgorod kuma ya tsere tare da parachute dinsa bayan ya ƙare da bindigogi ya kashe wasu jiragen saman Jamus biyu. A watan Yuni ya yi jirginsa na farko a kan Bell P-39 Airacobra; a farkon watan Yuli ya jagoranci rukuni na mayakan hudu a cikin wani hari a kan wani nau'i mai yawa na abokan gaba na kimanin jiragen sama 100. Dukkanin jirage hudu na rundunarsa sun sauka lafiya bayan sun harbe 'yan bindiga hudu da' yan bindiga biyu, suna rushe tsarin. A wannan ranar ne rukunin nasa ya yi karin ayyukan yaki kuma tare suka harbe jiragen sama 16 na abokan gaba. Saboda jarumtarsa a cikin yaƙin iska da kuma ayyukansa na farko na 95 an ba shi lambar yabo ta farko ta Jarumi na Tarayyar Soviet a ranar 28 ga Satumba, 1943 ta hanyar dokar Soviet ta Soviet.