 On 5/6 April 1942, it bombed the aircraft engine plant at Rybinsk, north-northeast of Moscow.Operations for May are largely unknown; it took part in security warfare operations near Dorogobuzh on 3 June and armed reconnaissance over Tula on 10/11 June.On 18 June 1942 II./KG 54 was reassigned to "Fliegerkorps" VIII and was based near Kharkov-Volchenko from the 22nd.