Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei:
O le Taua o Kursk, lea na tau i le isi itu o Iukureini ma le Central, Belorussian, ma le 1st Belorussian Fronts. I le aso 23 Oketopa 1943, na tuuina atu ai le tulaga o le <unk>Guards<unk> ma toe faaigoaina o le 8th Guards Mechanized Corps. I le 1944, na auai ai i le Zhitomir-Berdichev, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Proskurov-Chernovits, ma Lvov-Sandomir taua, mauaina le 'Carpathian' honorarific ia Aperila 1944. Na faaiʻu le taua i Perelini ina ua uma ona auai i osofaiga a Warsaw-Poznan ma East Pomeranian. Ia Iuni 1945, i le amanaia ai o lana matafaioi i le puʻeina o Perelini, na tuuina atu ai ia te ia le mamalu 'Berlin'. I le avea ai o se vaega o malosiaga o le nofoia, na tofia i le 1st Guards Tank Army (mulimuli ane 1st Guards Mechanized Army).