At the beginning of September, Lent's squadron, 7./JG 132, relocated to Großenhain near Dresden, in preparation and support of the annexation of Czechoslovakia.
1. julija 1938 je bil dodeljen 3. skupini Jagdgeschwader 132 "Richthofen" (III./JG 132); tu je 19. julija 1938 opravil svoj prvi polet po prometni nesreči.