The corps began its formation process on 24 December in the region of the railway station of Turdey, Tula Oblast.
[3] The corps was forced to employ locals in settlements along the march route to clear the snow off the road.
The detachment was tasked with rapidly advancing in cooperation with the group of Major General Pyotr Sobennikov and taking Kromy by the morning of 12 February.
At 16:30 on 11 February the mobile detachment arrived in the region of Verkhny Lyubazh and was joined by the battalion from the 101st Tank Brigade.
By the time combat operations began, the brigades had half of their wheeled transport, and eleven ChTZ tractors assigned for recovery.
The 19th Motor Rifle Brigade took eight settlements, but lost up to 145 men in a failed attack on Gnilets, a result attributed to its lack of artillery and mortars.
The corps was shifted to the Central Front's 65th Army on 20 March, moving to the region of Lovlivy, Pochennoye, and Novy Svet.
[4] The corps was placed under the operational control of the 2nd Tank Army on 5 July, launching a counterattack towards Nikolskoye and Podolyan.
On 8 July the corps was shifted to the 70th Army, fighting in defensive battles on the line of Olkhovatka, Molotychi, Soborovka, and Samodurovka.
The corps was pulled out of action on 24 July and relocated by rail to the Kosterovo Tank Camp at Naro-Fominsk, where it was rebuilt in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command beginning on 20 August.
The corps unloaded at the stations of Volnovakha and Kuybyshevo, concentrating in the region of Chapayevka, Ulyanovsky, Tikhi Gai, and Konskiye Razdory by 27 September, placed in the front reserve.
The corps took jumping-off positions on 24 October, shifting to the operational control of the 28th Army and advancing on Darmshtadt, Cherkhograd, Novo-Nikolayevka, and Novo-Ivanovka.
The corps was pulled out of action on 4 January 1944, withdrawn to the 4th Ukrainian Front reserve in the region of Mikhaylovka.
During the Crimean offensive, the corps attacked from the line of Baysary and sovkhoz Kirk-Ishun on the Dzhankoy, Simferopol, Zuya, Bakchisaraya, and Sapun-Gora axis.
[9] it was relocated by rail to the Tula Tank Camps between 5 and 18 June, remaining there to rebuild in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command until 12 July.
After unloading at the stations of Vitebsk and Polotsk, the corps marched 200 kilometers and on 4 August concentrated in the region of Panevezhis, under the operational control of the 43rd Army.
[11] The corps attacked as part of the front's 22nd Army on 23 December in the region of Dzhuksta and Auce, south of Tukums.
On the night of 6–7 November, the corps conducted a 90 kilometer march, concentrating in the region of Vaychi, Vaynode, and Ergli, where it was placed under the control of the 6th Guards Army.
The corps was withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command on 5 April and relocated to Romania by rail to Călugăreni, Comana, and Vlad Țepeș, 25 to 30 kilometers south of Bucharest.