 The first combat the division experienced was during the counter-offensive at Moscow in the areas of Naro-Fominsk and Borovsk where it suffered 55% casualties.By June 1942 only 36% of the division were Latvian-speaking, and a year later this figure was reduced to 32%.However, in part this was due to the formation of a second Latvian division, the 308th Latvian Rifle Division.