Kuderna remained in charge until September 1944, though he was briefly interrupted by a tenure by Adolf Wolf that started on 27 November 1942 and ended in early December.

[3]: 21  A major United States Army Air Forces attack against Ploiești ("Operation Tidal Wave") took place on 1 August 1943.

[3]: 24  On 3 August 1943, senior German and Romanian leaders in Romania held a joint conference following the major air raid by the USAAF, which Kuderna attended.

[1]: 317 The 5th Flak Division was the primary anti-aircraft formation on the ground that opposed the USAAF air raid against Ploiești on 5 April 1944.

Following the 1944 Romanian coup d'état on 23 August 1944, desperate orders were given out around midnight by Adolf Hitler and the Wehrmacht high command to available German forces to crush the putschists.

Due to Gerstenberg's state of siege, command over the German intervention force was passed instead to Horst Hoffmeyer [de] of the Waffen-SS.

Flakdivision (W)), was recreated on 1 November 1944 in Meschede to coordinate V-1 flying bomb attacks on the Western Front.