 Kọ itẹsiwaju fun paragirafi yii - Ni Oṣu Kẹta Ọdun 1943, Ẹgbẹ-ogun afẹfẹ tun pẹlu ẹgbẹ-ogun Normandie-Niemen ti Faranse, eyiti o tun ṣe atunṣe ni regiment kan. Ni 1942, awọn 1st Air Army ja lẹgbẹẹ awọn ọmọ ogun ti awọn Western Front, supporting wọn sunmọ Yukhnov, Gzhatsk ati Rzhev. Awọn Air Army nigbamii kopa ninu awọn Rzhev-Sychevka, Rzhev-Vyazma, Oryol, Smolensk, Belarusian : , Memel ati awọn iṣẹ ikọlu East Prussian. 