In the last months of the war it was in 3rd Belorussian Front and took part in the elimination of a group of German forces southwest of Königsberg, for which several of its subunits received decorations.

Late on July 11 it was reported that the Front's forces:[8]fought with attacking enemy units in the Sebezh, Osveia, Borkovichi, Gorodok, Vitebsk, Barsuki Station, and Borkolobovo region, while directing its main efforts at liquidating the enemy's advancing Vitebsk grouping.The 170th, on the north flank of the 22nd Army and therefore the extreme right flank of the Front, was said to have attacked with its right wing at 1000 hours, while continuing to fight along its previous positions with its left wing.

14th Motorized was especially overextended and vulnerable to counterattack, and the escaping troops pressed against the light screen it had erected south of Nevel and 12th Infantry Division's blocking positions north of that place.

At 2000 on July 23 Yershakov effectively admitted that only remnants of the Corps had been able to break out; the division had been attacking to the southwest from the Kozhemiachkino area in and effort to assist its corps-mates to escape.

[15] Stalin approved a plan on August 15 by Timoshenko to renew the counteroffensive by Western Front, although the task allotted to 22nd Army was largely to continue to hold its positions.

Because the corridor was still under Soviet artillery fire it was not sufficient as a line of communications, and II Corps continued to rely on air supply for most of its needs through the remainder of the battle.

The armies around the perimeter of the pocket, such as the 34th, were directed to make local attacks to tie down German reserves, but this cut into the logistic support for the main effort while producing no practical results.

[46] During this advance, on July 27–29 Starshina Georgii Maksimovich Kudashov, a platoon commander of the 3rd Machine Gun Company of 391st Rifle Regiment, distinguished himself in the fighting for the village of Filosovo.

Romanenko now ordered his Army in the general direction of Nesterovo and in an energetic advance it covered more than 60km by August 1, reaching a line from Ploskoe to Gutorovo and capturing both villages.

The troops that participated in the liberation of Rechitsa, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of 18 November 1943 and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 12 artillery salvoes by 124 guns.Army Group Center's southern defenses were in a state of crisis by this point, and 9th Army had been forced out of Gomel.

[56] For Rokossovskii's next attempt to reach Parichi and Babruysk General Romanenko formed a shock group with his 42nd and 29th Rifle Corps with armor support and it was to launch its attack in the 15km-wide sector from Shatsilki on the Berezina southwest to Zherd Station on the Shatsilki–Kalinkavichy rail line, facing elements of XXXXI Panzer.

The shock group would then advance in the direction of Repki, Turki, and Babruysk, complete breaking the German defense, and then reach the rear of the three divisions in and around Zhlobin, cut them off from the crossings of the Berezina, and destroy them in cooperation with 65th Army.

The right wing armies, including the 48th, made their reconnaissance on the night of June 22/23 with 12 detachments roughly the size of a reinforced rifle battalion, although that of the 48th also contained two penal companies.

The main artillery preparation on the morning of June 24 was relatively ineffective on the breakthrough sector of the 48th and 3rd Armies, largely due to the distance from the firing positions to the forward defenses, 5–6km or more.

42nd and 29th Corps had great difficulty in developing the offensive in part due to terrain; the broad and swampy valley of the Drut River was difficult to cross, especially by tanks and other heavy vehicles.

Elements of the 48th were working in cooperation with the Dniepr Flotilla operating along the Berezina, and by the end of the day the Army it was fighting the encircled grouping on a line from Barak to outside Malinova to Kavali to Malevo.

While the German units closest to the front line, which had suffered less from the air assault, put up stiff resistance, other groups and individuals that had been more directly affected began to surrender.

On the night of June 29/30 the division marched through Sabichi, Titovka and Yеloviki and by 2000 concentrated in the forest 2km west of Yeloviki, where it put its units in order and brought up ammunition in readiness for further action.

During the day, the division continued to put its units in order and combed through the forests searching for remaining German troops, taking 204 prisoners including 50 Hiwis.

By July 5 the remnants of organized German forces had fallen back to a defense line that had been constructed during WWI from Daugavpils to Maladzyechna to Baranavichy, but this was understandably in a poor state of repair.

The attack by 48th and 65th Armies, backed by 4th Guards Cavalry and 1st Mechanized Corps, developed slowly and it wasn't until July 7 that they were able to break into the town following a powerful artillery and aviation preparation.

The advance now shifted to the Warsaw axis as German resistance increased, and this, combined with logistic constraints, brought the offensive to a halt, generally along the line of the Vistula.

While conducting a training exercise involving a simulated crossing of the Western Bug on August 25, troops of the 717th Rifle Regiment downed an overflying Messerschmitt Bf 109 with salvo fire near Rytele Suche.

The German garrison, consisting of remnants of the 7th and 299th Divisions and the 30th Panzergrenadier Regiment, contested the major brick structures and a series of concrete pillboxes, but despite this units of 42nd Corps soon broke into the town.

[89] On the night of March 15/16 the division handed over its sector of the offensive to the 152nd Fortified Region and concentrated in the corps' second echelon in the vicinity of Marienau, Klein Mausdorf and Kmiecin.

The German counterattack with an estimated battalion-strength force, supported by four self-propelled guns and artillery fire, drove the reconnaissance group back across the mouth of the Nogat in three hours.

At 0500 on 8 May, after the commitment of the 717th Rifle Regiment and a battalion of the 391st, elements of the division dislodged German troops from their line and continued to drive them north, capturing a series of settlements and farms.

At 2230, a German force estimated at up to 300 troops, supported by four to five self propelled guns, launched two fruitless counterattacks against the 717th, endeavoring to drive the regiment back across the Königsberger Weichsel.

[96] On May 12 the division marched through Grosskenkampe, Haffkrug, Lange, Pugkampe, Alt-Terranova, Bolberk, Gross Rebern, and Elbing, and by 2200 hours that day concentrated northeast of the latter with its headquarters in the village of Damerau.

The process of drawing down the division began in early August with the dispatch of more than 800 troops as well as the divisional training battalion to Königsberg, where they were used to strengthen other units of the Special Military District.