Following a brief period for restoration in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command it was reassigned to 42nd Army in the last stages of the Leningrad–Novgorod offensive and served along the east shores of Lake Peipus during the spring of 1944.

Prior to the invasion of Poland and Germany it was transferred to the 59th Army of 1st Ukrainian Front, where it took over the men, materiel, and battle honor of the 379th Rifle Division.

As suggested by his obsolete rank this officer had been arrested and imprisoned in May 1938 during the Great Purge, but was released and rehabilitated in January 1940 and then served as an instructor at the Frunze Military Academy.

As of July 10 the division was still forming up in the Moscow Military District,[3] but three days later it was assigned to 29th Army in Reserve Front and was marching on Bologoye.

The 34th Army will occupy jumping-off positions in the Kulakovo and Kolomna sector along the eastern bank of the Lovat River by the evening of 11 August...4.

The situation was restored by August 22 through the intervention of the LVI Motorized Corps and three days later the 34th and 11th Armies had been driven back to the line of the Lovat.

Korchits took over the 182nd Rifle Division in January 1942, and then served as deputy commander of 34th Army beginning in August, when his rank was modernized to major general.

Nichushkin held the position for just three weeks before he was replaced by Col. Fyodor Petrovich Ozerov, who had been serving as chief of staff of 34th Army; he was promoted to major general on October 7.

Following the Staraya Russa fighting the commander of Army Group North, Field Marshal W. J. F. von Leeb, resolved to ensure that his right flank was secure before beginning the final push on Leningrad.

Demyansk was taken in early September, but by now the LVI Motorized Corps was in an absurd position at the end of a single 90km-long dirt road through swamps back to the railhead at Staraya Russa.

Beginning on January 10 the 254th infiltrated the positions of the 290th with ski troops through frozen marshes and cut the supplies of three company-sized strongpoints which were gradually eliminated by the rest of Berzarin's forces.

[14] At the beginning of February, the 290th Infantry was still holding east of the Pola River but its II Corps and several other German units were vulnerable to encirclement at Demyansk.

The STAVKA ordered that Northwestern Front should crush the pocketed force within four or five days; meanwhile reinforcements were arriving from Germany and the airlifting of supplies was well underway.

[15] The German attempt to relieve the pocket, Operation Brückenschlag, began on March 21 but the linkup with the besieged grouping was not achieved until April 21.

German engineers turned the area into a fortified zone, complete with deep barbed wire obstacles and extensive minefields.

In a departure from the previous plans which focused on cutting the corridor, Timoshenko proposed to lead with shock groups from the 34th and 53rd Armies "in order to deprive the enemy of the opportunity to maneuver his forces."

At this time the 100th Corps had five rifle divisions under command, including the 245th and was defending the western half of the northern protrusion of the salient south of Pustoshka.

However this was preempted beginning on December 29 when Field Marshal G. von Küchler, commander of Army Group North, began a phased withdrawal which took place over six days.

[28] Under these commands it took part in the final phase of the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, and spent the spring involved in minor fighting along the east shore of Lake Peipus.

At the start of the Pskov-Ostrov Offensive in early July the 245th was located northeast of Pskov, facing the defenses of the Panther Line around that city.

The troops who participated in the liberation of Valga, by the order of the Supreme High Command of 19 September 1944, and a commendation in Moscow, are given a salute of 12 artillery salvoes from 124 guns.

[43] 1st Ukrainian Front began its offensive from the Baranów bridgehead over the Vistula River at 0435 hours on January 12, and quickly achieved a breakthrough.

The 245th was part of the Soviet force that liberated Kraków on January 18 and the 898th Rifle Regiment (Lt. Col. Konstantin Dmitrievich Nikolayev) was awarded its name as a battle honor.

[45] As the advance continued the division took part in the liberation of Katowice on January 27, and three days later staged a crossing of the Oder River to the west.

Upon the arrival of his Front's main group of forces in the Neisse area the 59th and 60th Armies were to develop the attack from the bridgehead north of Ratibor to the west and southwest.

The Corps was to launch its main attack along the left flank in the direction of Lenschutz, Oberglogau, Repsch and Wiesengrund and break through the German defense along a 3km-wide sector and by day's end capture the line Nesselwitz–Groenweide in cooperation with 7th Guards Mechanized.

Konev personally visited the 59th Army headquarters on the 17th and directed that the 115th be deployed to the northwest to capture Oberglogau and facilitate the advance of the 93rd and 7th Guards Corps.

The encirclement of the German Oppeln grouping was completed and the divisions of 115th Corps had to repel numerous counterattacks by small subunits of infantry and tanks trying to break out to the south from Oberglogau and Friedersdorf, after which it seized Walzen and reached the southern outskirts of the other two towns.

The German command was now making efforts to pull its encircled forces out toward the west, including a break-in attempt by the Hermann Göring Panzer Division towards Steinau.

At 0830 hours on March 19, after a 10-minute fire onslaught, the 115th Corps attacked, splitting the defenders and capturing Krappitz and Oberglogau plus several wooded areas.