sentences:  The unit was soon renamed the 24th Rifle Division.It fought in the Winter War and World War II, during which it was destroyed during Operation Barbarossa.Reformed without inheriting the lineage of the first formation, the second formation of the 24th gained the Berdichev honorific for its actions during the Zhitomir–Berdichev Offensive in late 1943, and was given the battle flag and traditions of the first formation in early 1944 to preserve historical continuity.