Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da farko an nada shi kyaftin din jirgin ruwa mai gyara "Ifaistos", kafin a tura shi zuwa Burtaniya don kula da isar da jiragen ruwa guda hudu na "Flower" ga rundunar sojan 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 baya zuwa 9 ga Nuwamba 1943), kuma ya shiga a matsayin kwamandan rundunar jirgin ruwa a cikin ayyukan Allied a Anzio (Janairu 1944), da 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.