[1] Major Yefim Chervyakov, promoted to lieutenant colonel on 16 October of that year, was appointed division commander.

The division included three fighter aviation regiments (IAP), the 3rd,[2] the 18th at Khabarovsk,[3] and the 60th at Dzyomgi, which had all previously been under Air Force (VVS) control.

[8] During the same month, the 400th IAP PVO joined the division after arriving from Europe by rail without aircraft and received the Lavochkin La-7 before the invasion began.

[9] The division became part of the Amur Air Defense Army when the zone was split in 1945 and during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, it provided air cover for Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and Nikolayevsk as well as rear communications, concentration areas, and troops of the 2nd Far Eastern Front.

Elements of the division participated in the Sungari Offensive and the Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin, in which they did not face Japanese air resistance.

The lack of Japanese air activity and bad weather resulted in the units of the division flying very few combat missions during the war; for example, four out of 22 sorties flown by the 18th IAP were escort for the transport aircraft of Soviet theatre commander Marshal Aleksandr Vasilevsky.

[3] After the end of the war, Kozlov commanded the division until his death in an accident near the Nikolayevka airfield on 7 June 1946.

In Poland, the division became part of the 37th Air Army of the Northern Group of Forces and was headquartered at Szprotawa.

[8] According to data released under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, the regiments of the division had 69 Su-24s between them on 19 November 1990.

The division headquarters and the 89th Bomber Aviation Regiment were withdrawn to the Leningrad Military District in spring 1992.