Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Fagan akagadzwa tenzi wechipiri muMarines muna January 1942. Fagan akashanda semutungamiri mukuru weG Company, Second Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. Akarwa muBougainville, Guadalcanal, New Zealand, Kwajalein, Eniwetok
, uye nhimbe dzeGuam. Akakuvadzwa zvakaipisisa muhondo yezvombo paIwo Jima musi waFebruary 26, 1945; akabudiswa uye akafa zuva rakatevera. Fagan akapiwa kaviri Navy Cross: kamwe nokuda kwezviito zvake paHondo yeGuam, imwe nokuda kwezviito zvake paHondo yeIwo Jima. Akagamuchira mubairo wechipiri pashure pokufa kwake.