Within his regiment, he was tasked with photographing the aftermath of bombing flights. After the reformation of long-range aviation regiments into bomber regiments in December 1944, the 10th Guards Long-range Aviation Regiment became the 226th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment. As a flight navigator in that unit, he participated in the battles for Warsaw, Koenigsberg, and Berlin. He was praised by his superiors for never becoming disoriented and finding the precise location of targets. At the time of his second nomination for a gold star he had flown 402 sorties, with 392 of them being at night, and by the end of the war he totaled 430 sorties, of which 83 were on the R-5 and the remaining 347 on the Il-4.