Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Na 5 Julaị 1943 agha ikpeazụ nke Germany na Eastern Front (Operation Citadel) mepere site na mwakpo na ugwu na ndịda ubu nke Kursk Salient. Ebumnuche ya bụ ikpuchi ma bibie Central na Voronezh Fronts na-agbachitere ugwu na ndịda Kursk. N'oge ahụ, ndị agha 40th, na-arụ ọrụ ihe a na-atụ anya na ọ ga-abụ mpaghara dị jụụ nke ihu ihu na-eche ihu n'akụkụ aka ekpe nke German Fourth Panzer Army, dabere na ngalaba egbe egbe asaa nwere nkwado agha. N'oge Agha nke Kursk, ebe ndị agha lụrụ ọgụ dị ka akụkụ nke Voronezh Front, ọ zigara ọtụtụ ndị agha na 6th Guards Army iji nyere 6th Guards aka ijide 48th Panzer Corps, gụnyere 29th Tank Destroyer Brigade na 1244th na 869th Tank Destroyer Regiments, ngụkọta nke ihe karịrị 100 egbe antitank. Ndị agha nke 40 bugakwara otu tank brigade na ndị agha nke 38 n'otu oge ahụ. Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, ọ tinyere aka na ịgafe Dnepr na Septemba 1943 na njikọta na arụmọrụ ikuku. Ndị agha mechara tinye aka na
Agha nke Kiev (1943) na 1944, dịka akụkụ nke 2nd Ukrainian Front, na-eme ihe gburugburu Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket, Kamenets-Podolsky n'akpa, na Uman-Botoshany, Iassy-Kishinev, Bratislava-Brno, na Prague Offensives. Ọ na-alụ ọgụ na Agha nke Debrecen, na nke, n'ihi na ya ala mkpa, ọ nwere nanị ise nkewa kenyere. A chụpụrụ ndị agha nke 40 na July 1945.