Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Musi wa5 Chikunguru 1943 kurwisa kwekupedzisira kweGerman kumabvazuva (Operation Citadel) kwakatanga nekurwisa kuchamhembe nekumaodzanyemba kweKursk Salient. Chinangwa chacho chaiva chokukomba nokuparadza Central neVoronezh Front dzaidzivirira kuchamhembe nokumaodzanyemba kweKursk. Panguva iyoyo 40th Army, ichitora zvaitarisirwa kuve chikamu chakareruka chepamberi chakatarisana nerutivi rweruboshwe rweGerman Fourth Panzer Army, yaive yakavakirwa pamapoka manomwe evarwi ane rutsigiro rwakaputirwa. Munguva yehondo yeKursk, uko mauto akarwa sechikamu cheVoronezh Front, yakatamisa huwandu hwekusimbiswa ku6th Guards Army kubatsira 6th Guards kudzora 48th Panzer Corps, kusanganisira 29th Tank Destroyer Brigade uye 1244th uye 869th Tank Destroyer Regiments, inosvika pfuti dzinopfuura zana dzinotarisana nematangi. Mauto e40 akaendesawo rimwe bhirigadi rematangi kuuto re38 panguva imwe cheteyo. Mushure mehondo, yakabatanidzwa mukuyambuka kweDnepr munaGunyana 1943 pamwe chete nemabasa emhepo. Mauto akazobatanidzwa muHondo yeKiev (1943)
uye muna 1944, sechikamu che2nd Ukrainian Front, zviito zvakapoteredza Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Kamenets-Podolsky pocket, uye Uman-Botoshany, Iassy-Kishinev, Bratislava-Brno, uye Prague Offensives. Rakarwawo muhondo yeDebrecen, umo, pamusana pekukosha kwayo kwakaderera, rakanga rine zvikamu zvishanu chete zvakagoverwa. Mauto e40 akaparadzwa muna July 1945.