Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An nada Linscott Jami'in Ayyuka da horo a kan ma'aikatan Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet karkashin Manjo Janar Holland Smith kuma an daukaka shi zuwa matsayin colonel a watan Oktoba 1941. Bayan shigar da Amurka a cikin yakin duniya na biyu, an umurci Linscott don aiki a Kudancin Pacific a watan Yuni 1942 kuma an haɗa shi da ma'aikatan kwamandan, Amphibious Force South Pacific karkashin Mataimakin Admiral Richmond K. Turner. An nada Linscott mataimakin shugaban ma'aikata kuma ya shiga cikin manyan kamfen da yawa a tsibirin Solomon
, New Georgia, Bougainville da kuma Gilbert da Marshall Islands. Ya kasance a kan ma'aikatan Turner bayan sake sake fasalin Amphibious Force South Pacific zuwa Ƙungiyar Amphibious Force ta Uku kuma ya bambanta kansa a wannan matsayi. Daga baya ya sami lambobin yabo biyu na Legion of Merit don hidimarsa.