[10] During the Battle of Stalingrad, the division also included a penal fighter aviation squadron formed on 18 September for pilots and mechanics accused of crimes, which was disbanded on 15 November.

For "successful completion of objectives and demonstrated heroism of its personnel," the 268th IAD was converted into the elite 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division on 18 March, and was awarded the honorific Don on 4 May 1943.

[1] From December 1943 to February 1944, the division repulsed German airstrikes against the troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front during the Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive.

In early February, Colonel Iosif Geybo replaced Sidnev, who had been promoted to corps command.

During the Crimean offensive, its pilots escorted the bomber and ground attack aircraft of the 8th Air Army and provided air cover to the ground forces of the front in the breakthrough of the Perekop isthmus and the south coast of the Sivash, in addition to the pursuit of the retreating Axis troops.

For "successful completion of objectives in the liberation of Simferopol and its courage and heroism," the 6th Guards IAD was awarded the Order of the Red Banner on 24 April.

It was further decorated with the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class, on 4 June 1945 for its "successful completion of combat missions" in the capture of Jaroměřice, Znojmo, Hollabrunn, and Stockerau.

Division commander Colonel Iosif Geybo and sixteen pilots were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

[13] In August 1945, the division was relocated from Czechoslovakia to the Odessa Military District, where its regiments received the American-provided Lend-Lease Kingcobra during mid-1946.

A decree issued by President Leonid Kuchma on 30 November 2000 restored the division's Soviet titles (Ukrainian: 6 гвардійська винищувальна авіаційна Донська Сегедська орденів Червоного Прапора і ордена Суворова дивізія).

[20] The division headquarters was disbanded during the transition of the Ukrainian Air Force to a brigade-based structure, in which the 114th became the 114th Fighter Aviation Brigade on 15 October 2003.