Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Mauto Echina akasikwa muna Nyamavhuvhu 1939 muBelorussian Special Military District kubva kuBobruisk Army Group seuto rakazvimiririra. Muna September 1939, Fourth Army yakabatanidzwa mukupinda kweSoviet muPoland yakatungamirirwa neRamangwana Marshal weSoviet Union V.I. Chuykov, mudziviriri weStalingrad. Kurongeka kwayo kwehondo mubasa iroro kwakanyorwa pano. Zvikamu zveuto, sezviri pachena 4th Battalion, 29th Light Tank Brigade, zvakatora rutivi mu
Mauto eGermany neSoviet akapinda muBrest-Litovsk musi waSeptember 22, 1939.