On the third day of the war, universal fitter of local telephone exchange, father of two children, Dmitry Vasilyevich Goreslavets were mobilized to Worker-Peasant Red Army by Priishim military Commissariat of North Kazakhstan Region to defend the Fatherland. He took an accelerated course of training for artillery and mortar operators in the training camp. From July 1941 He commanded a mortar crew at the front, as part of the 162nd rifle division of the 501st regiment, with the rank of Sergeant. From 1941 to January, 9, 1943, the regiment participated in battles as part of the South-Western front in the Kharkov direction, Izyum, Barvenkovo, Novo-Mikhailovsk, and fought in the North Caucasus. In the first months of the war, ensuring the withdrawal of our units, mortar battery by command and under the threat of encirclement has moved to the front of the defense, and by their fire held back the advance of the Nazis. Having fulfilled the order, the mortar men found themselves in the "temporarily occupied territory", and they had to reach the dislocations of their troops by their own. Those who left the encirclement were sent for re-formation after a mandatory check. Since the summer of 1943, after inspections and re-formation of the personnel of the "encircled", he continued to fight as part of the 155 Army Cannon Artillery Novorossiysk-Sevastopol Red banner 2nd degree Suvorov order Brigade (abbreviated APABR) as a motorcycle recon. On October 24, 1944, the commander of the 155th APABR awarded Dmitry Vasilyevich the medal "for the defense of the Caucasus". In 1944, as part of the 1st Ukrainian front during the period of fighting to destroy the encircled enemy group in the area of Zolochiv in Ukraine, in the battles to expand and hold the bridgehead at the Vistula river in Poland. On October 12, 1944, By order of the commander, he was awarded the order of the Red Star. The 155th APABR as part of the 1st Ukrainian front fought its way to the liberation of Europe: Poland, German Silesia, Dresden, Prague, and ended the war in the Austrian city of Amstetten. In July 1945, Dmitry Vasilyevich was awarded a" Certificate of Gratitude "from the commander of the 1st Ukrainian front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev, medals" for the liberation of Prague","for the victory over Germany". Demobilized in November 1945.