Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakahohehia te ope taua i te 15 o Hakihea 1941 i Fort Benning. I tukuna atu ki Ingarangi ka whakauruhia ki te kaipatu tank M10. I tae mai te 654 ki Omaha Beach i te 11 o Hurae 1944 ki te whawhai i te pakanga o Normandy ka tukuna ki te whawhai i te ra i muri mai i Fallot. I te marama o Akuhata, i whawhai tata ki Mortain i te Operation Cobra, te rerenga a nga Allied mai i Normandy. Katahi ka anga whakamua
puta noa i France ki Nancy, e whawhai ana i te Raina Siegfried me te whakawhiti i te Awa Saar i te timatanga o Tihema. Whai muri i te tiimata o te whakaeke a Tiamana i te Pakanga o te Bulge, i tukuna te peihana ki te waahanga Ardennes i te 21 o Tihema. I te marama o Hanuere 1945, i muri i te whakaekenga o te whakaeke, ka hoki mai te 654 ki te tonga ki te rohe o Metz. I hoki mai ia ki Belgium i te Hui-tanguru ki te tango i te kaipatu tank M36 i whakaarahia. I tukuna ano te peihana ki te whawhai i roto i te whakaekenga o te Hauauru o te Hauauru o Tiamana, e whawhai ana i roto i te whakaekenga puta noa i te awa o Roer me te whakawhiti i te Rhine i te 24 o Poutu-te-rangi. I anga whakamua ki Tiamana ki Tangerhütte, i reira i noho ai tae noa ki te tango i nga mahi a te kawanatanga hoia i te timatanga o Mei i muri i te hekenga o Tiamana. I Uropi, i honoa te peihana ki te 5th Infantry Division, te 30th Infantry Division, te 35th Infantry Division, me te 75th Infantry Division. I te hokinga ki te United States, i whakakorehia te ope taua i Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, i te 13 o Noema 1945.