Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An kunna rukunin a ranar 15 ga Disamba, 1941 a Fort Benning. An aika da shi zuwa Ingila kuma an sanye shi da M10 tank destroyer. Na 654 ya sauka a Omaha Beach a ranar 11 ga Yuli 1944 don yin yaki a yakin Normandy kuma an aika da shi zuwa yaki a rana mai zuwa kusa da Fallot. A watan Agusta, ya yi yaƙi kusa da Mortain a lokacin Operation Cobra, Allied breakout daga Normandy. Sa'an nan kuma ya ci gaba
a fadin Faransa zuwa Nancy, yana fada tare da Siegfried Line da kuma ƙetare kogin Saar a farkon Disamba. Bayan da aka fara kai hare-haren Jamus a cikin yakin Bulge, an tura rundunar zuwa yankin Ardennes a ranar 21 ga Disamba. A watan Janairun 1945, bayan da aka mayar da martani, 654th ya koma kudu zuwa yankin Metz. Ya koma Belgium a watan Fabrairun don karɓar mai hallaka tank M36 wanda aka yi masa. An sake tura bataliya zuwa yaƙi a cikin mamayewar Yammacin Allied na Jamus, yana yaƙi a cikin hare-haren da ke ƙetaren Kogin Roer da ƙetare Rhine a ranar 24 ga Maris. Ya ci gaba zuwa Jamus zuwa Tangerhütte, inda ya kasance har sai da ya dauki nauyin aikin soja a farkon watan Mayu bayan da Jamus ta mika wuya. A Turai, an haɗa bataliya da Rukunin Sojoji na 5, Rukunin Sojoji na 30, Rukunin Sojoji na 35, da Rukunin Sojoji na 75. Da yake komawa Amurka, an kashe rundunar a sansanin Patrick Henry, Virginia, a ranar 13 ga watan Nuwamba, 1945.