Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tsarin da horar da rukunin ya ƙare a watan Fabrairun 1943 kuma rukunin ya shiga yaƙin a ranar 21 ga Fabrairun 1943 a Alekseyevka, kilomita 50 kudu maso gabashin Oryol. Wannan ya kawo sashen a cikin hanyar Wehrmacht ta
Operation Citadel ko Yaƙin Kursk, inda ya yi aiki tare da Rundunar 'Yan bindiga ta 42 na Rundunar Sojoji ta 48, Soviet Central Front. A cikin kwanakin farko na yaƙin, Rukunin 'yan bindiga na 16 ya tsayayya da harin da Jamusawa da Rukunin Panzer na 18 suka kai, wanda jiragen sama 120 suka biyo baya. Bayan sun yi hasara sosai, sojojin Soviet suka yi nasara. Tsakanin 20 ga Fabrairu da 24 ga Maris, 1943, rukunin ya rasa mutane 1,169 da suka mutu da 3,275 da suka ji rauni. A lokacin wannan yaƙin wani soja mai suna Viktoras Jacenevičius, ya ji rauni, aka kama shi fursuna sannan aka azabtar da shi har ya mutu da Jamusawa. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Hero na Tarayyar Soviet bayan mutuwarsa.