Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin mamayewar Axis na Tarayyar Soviet, Pikalov yana cikin aji na 9. A watan Mayu na 1941, ya shiga Jami'ar Nazarin Harkokin Kasuwanci a Rostov-on-Don, inda ya kammala karatun digiri a watan Fabrairun 1942. Ya shiga cikin yakin duniya na biyu, yana ganin yaƙi tare da Yammacin, Don, Stalingrad, Steppe da 2nd Belorussian fronts, shiga cikin 'yanci na Kursk, Minsk, Poznan
, da kuma mamaye Berlin. An ji masa rauni sau uku. Ya yi yaƙi a cikin bindigogi a matsayin kwamandan kwamandan, kwamandan baturi, mataimakin shugaban ma'aikatan sashen bindigogi a kan bincike, mataimakin babban jami'in bindigogi, jami'in bincike na rundunar.