Ka cika wannan jumla: Da farko an nada shi kyaftin na jirgin gyaran "Ifaistos", kafin a tura shi zuwa Biritaniya don kula da isar da jiragen ruwa guda huɗu na "Flower" zuwa rundunar sojan ruwa na Girka. Hakazalika, a cikin 1943 shi ne shugaban aikin karɓar jiragen ruwa na "LST-1" a New Orleans. Shi da kansa ya dauki umurnin LST "Samos" (L179). A ranar 10 ga Janairu 1944 an daukaka shi zuwa kyaftin (wanda ya koma zuwa ranar 9 ga Nuwamba 1943), kuma ya shiga a matsayin kwamandan rundunar jirgin ruwa a cikin ayyukan Allied a Anzio (Janairu 1944), kuma
Kudancin Faransa (Agusta 1944). Don hidimarsa a matsayin kyaftin na "Samos", a ranar 14 ga Satumba 1944 ya sami Gicciye na Girka, aji na III. Don hidimarsa ta yaƙi gaba ɗaya, kuma musamman ayyukansa yayin saukar Anzio, ya sami lambar yabo don Ayyuka Masu Kyau a ranar 11 ga Disamba, 1945.