Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An zabi Stepanenko don taken Jarumin Tarayyar Soviet a karo na biyu a ranar 28 ga Janairu 1945; a lokacin, ya yi aikin 395, ya shiga cikin fadace-fadace 112, kuma da kansa ya harbe jiragen sama 32 na abokan gaba. An ba shi lambar yabo bayan ƙarshen yaƙin a ranar 18 ga Agusta, 1945. Bayan ya shiga yakin a matsayin matukin jirgi na farko, ya kasance kwamandan kwamandan tare da mukamin Manjo a karshen rikici. Gabaɗaya ya shiga cikin lalata jiragen sama na abokan gaba guda tara, da kansa ya harbe 32, kuma ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe 118 a cikin ayyukan 414. Ya yi tafiya a cikin Ranar Nasara a ranar 24 ga Yuni 1945
a matsayin wani ɓangare na layin gaba na Leningrad; kafin a sanya rukunin sa a matsayin wani ɓangare na layin gaba na Leningrad ya yi yaƙi da ya yi yaƙi a ƙarƙashin Bryansk, Stalingrad, Kudancin, Arewacin Caucasian, da kuma Yammacin Yammacin yakin. Ya tashi a yaƙe-yaƙe don Voronezh, Stalingrad, Rostov, Kuban, Oryol, Riga, Polotsk, da sauran biranen.