After recuperating from his wounds in Budapest, he was assigned to the 101st Home Air Defence Fighter Wing ("101. Honi Légvédelmi Vadászrepülő Osztály") on 1 May 1944 as the commanding officer of the Radish ("Ratek") Fighter Squadron where he successfully downed four American aircraft despite having been shot down an additional two times. As the Hungarian government came to approach a level of detente under the guidance of Miklós Horthy, Tóth's energy was again focused on combatting intrusions by the increasingly aggressive Soviet Air Force during Operation Panzerfaust.