Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin Kursk, Rukunin na 8 ya ba da kariya ta iska ga rundunar Sojojin Tank na 1 a yankin arewa da yammacin Belgorod, yayin da Rundunar 797 ta rufe filayen jirgin saman Sojojin Sama na 2 a yankin Solntsevo da Trubezh. 'Yan bindigar' yan bindigar da ke bindigar sun yi ikirarin cewa jiragen sama 80 na abokan gaba a cikin yakin. A lokacin yakin Dnieper, sashin ya ba da tsaro na iska ga rundunar soja ta 38 a cikin kama hagu na Ukraine. Daga nan sai ya yi yaƙi a yakin Kiev
, kuma saboda "ƙarfin hali da ƙarfin hali", an ba da lambar yabo ta 8th Kiev a ranar 6 ga Nuwamba. A cikin watan Janairu da Fabrairun 1944, rukunin ya ba da kariya ta iska ga rundunar Sojojin Tank na 1 a lokacin Zhitomir<unk>Berdichev Offensive, yana kai hari kan Vinnytsia, da kuma yaƙe-yaƙe don lalata sojojin Jamus da aka kewaye a yankin Belaya Tserkov. A ranar 9 ga Fabrairu, rukunin ya sami lambar yabo ta Red Banner don "cin nasarar kammala ayyukan yaƙi" da "nuna ƙarfin hali da ƙarfin hali".