 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1941 iro divi rakaenda kuLapland kunotora chikamu muOperation Silberfuchs, kurwiswa kweSoviet Arctic sechikamu cheOperation Barbarossa, asi vakatadza kutora Murmansk. Chikamu ichi chakadzoserwa kuGermany kuti chivandudzwe pakupera kwegore, asi chakasiya 139th Mountain Infantry Regiment kumashure kuti ishande yakazvimiririra. Pashure pokugadziriswazve, boka racho rakadzokera kuNorway muna 1942, uko rakashanda sechengetedzo. Yakazoendeswa kuEastern Front, uko yakashanda senzvimbo yekuchengetedza yeArmy Group North pedyo neLeningrad. Muna November 1942 yakaendeswa kunhare uko vaSoviet vakanga vakomba Velikiye Luki, ndokuzoendeswa kumaodzanyemba kwakare kure kunobetsera mukuedza kubvisa Stalingrad. Rakarwa hondo yakasara kumaodzanyemba, richidzokera kumashure nemitsetse yepamberi kuburikidza neUkraine, Hungary, Slovakia, uye pakupedzisira rakapa maSoviet muSilesia pakupera kwehondo. 