Following a further abortive offensive against the German Gotenkopfstellung on the Taman Peninsula that month the division was moved into reserve and then sent northwest to join the 44th Army in Southern Front.

During the winter the division took part in the battles along the Dniepr bend until the front broke open in March 1944 and the 108th Guards advanced to the Southern Bug River, winning an honorific in the process.

A new offensive began in August when the division was part of 46th Army and each of its rifle regiments won battle honors during the advance through eastern Romania and into Hungary.

[1] In December it was shipped to the Moscow Defence Zone before joining the 2nd Guards Rifle Corps in the reserves of Kalinin Front in January 1942.

In August it was moved south by rail to the North Caucasus where it joined the 10th Guards Rifle Corps and it remained under this command until it was reformed.

[9] A new offensive began on July 16 after a massive artillery preparation at 0400 hours and initially involved only the 10th and 11th Guards Corps on a 7km-wide sector on the boundary between the 97th Jäger and 98th Infantry Divisions but this was almost immediately halted with heavy losses.

[13] On September 26 Maj. Vasilii Yakovlevich Antropov was leading his battalion of the 311th Guards Rifle Regiment toward the village of Voroshilovka in the Tokmak Raion.

Under cover of an artillery bombardment the battalion crept up to the village undetected, crossed an antitank ditch, broke through the defenses and seized the objective.

The troops who participated in the liberation of Nikolaev, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 28 March 1944, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 20 artillery salvoes from 224 guns.

[6] Immediately following the victory at Nikolaev the left (south) wing of 3rd Ukrainian Front continued its advance on the city of Odessa, which was expected to be taken at the earliest around April 5.

This was led by Pliyev's Cavalry-Mechanized Group, followed by the 8th Guards and 6th Armies to envelop the city from the northwest and west while the 5th Shock was to advance on its defenses directly from the east.

Once this was accomplished Malinovskii ordered Pliyev to race south as fast as possible to cut the withdrawal routes of the German forces from the Odessa region.

With the trap closing shut the remainder of the defending LXXII Army Corps began breaking out to the west, allowing the Soviet forces to occupy the city's center at 1000 hours on April 10 after only minor fighting.

[23] Following the battle for Odessa, the STAVKA ordered 3rd Ukrainian Front to mount a concerted effort to force the Dniester, capture Chișinău, and eventually occupy all of eastern Bessarabia.

The history of the 108th Guards describes the following events:The commander of 37th Rifle Corps assigned our division the mission of forcing the Dniester on the night of 18-19 April, seizing the flatlands along the river, and subsequently capturing the central part of the town of Talmazy.

A total of 74 guns and mortars per kilometre of front, which supported the crossing, reliably suppressed the enemy's defenses in the immediate region of the river's western bank and his artillery batteries situated in the depths.

Due to the Front regrouping that division was now in 37th Corps, holding a bridgehead between 1–2km deep and 3km wide in low-lying marshlands, with German forces in possession of the high ground.

As the advance continued into the Balkans on October 11 the 308th Guards Regiment (Col. Tatarchuk, Kondratii Safronovich) would win a similar honor for its part in the capture of the Hungarian city of Szeged.

[32] By the beginning of October the 46th Army had come under command of 2nd Ukrainian Front; at this time 37th Corps contained only the 108th Guards and the 320th Rifle Divisions.

It became clear that further efforts to take Budapest from the south would be unsuccessful and so the STAVKA began planning a renewed offensive on a broad front to outflank and encircle the city and 46th Army was ordered to temporarily go over to the defense on November 8.

This operation was carried out in darkness, without an artillery preparation, along a front of about 25km and largely took the defenders by surprise, leading to the capture of Tököl, Szigetcsép and Ráckeve on Csepel Island.

As the boat containing himself and three of his field phone operators neared the west bank it took a near-miss from an artillery shell and capsized; Yamushev himself was wounded.

[40] Yamushev retired from the Red Army in December 1945 due to his injuries but worked in several jobs, including editor of a district newspaper, before his death in 1978 at the age of 59.

46th Army was assigned a sector from northwest of Baracska to Kápolnásnyék with two rifle corps and was backed by 2nd Guards Mechanized; from here it was to advance to the area of Etyek–Zsámbék–Bicske and be prepared to take the western part of the city.

The next day the offensive accelerated as the mobile corps in particular cut several routes west out of the city and the Army's main forces advanced on Bicske.

As the encirclement was completed on December 26 the 37th and 23rd Rifle and 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps began street fighting along the western and southwestern outskirts of Budapest.

Small groups managed to filter through the positions of the besiegers and began to spread to the northwest into the rear of 3rd Ukrainian Front's right-flank units.

[50] On March 10 Colonel Dunaev was sent to study at the Voroshilov Academy; he would be made a Hero of the Soviet Union on April 28, largely for his leadership of the division in the battle for the Ercsi bridgehead.

As the Vienna Offensive continued the division took part in the recapture of Székesfehérvár and the capture of Mór, Veszprém and other towns and on April 26 the 305th and 311th Guards Rifle Regiments would each receive the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd Degree, for their roles in these successes.

The 108th Guards Rifle Division is featured extensively in Multi-Man Publishing's 2011 Historical Advanced Squad Leader module Festung Budapest.