Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'April 1944, na-enyefe ndị isi nke 2nd Armored Division na Major General Edward H. Brooks, a họpụtara ya ka ọ bụrụ onye isi ndị ọrụ nke ndị agha nke atọ, na-eje ozi ọzọ n'okpuru Lieutenant General George Patton. Gaffey jere ozi n'ọkwa a site na
na Western Europe, site na oge ndị agha nke atọ rutere France na July 1944 ma rụọ ọrụ dị mkpa na Operation Cobra na Agha nke Falaise Gap, sochiri ọganihu Allied site na Paris ruo Rhine na Agha nke Metz. N'ọnwa Disemba afọ 1944, ọ nọchiri Maajọ Jeneral John Shirley Wood dịka CG nke 4th Armored Division, nke rụrụ ọrụ dị mkpa na Battle of the Bulge, na-enyere aka ịkwụsị nnọchibido nke Bastogne. Ọ nọgidere na-eduzi nkewa ahụ ruo March 1945, na njedebe nke agha na Europe, mgbe ọ ghọrọ CG nke XXIII Corps. Ọ hapụrụ iwu nke XXIII Corps na Septemba, mgbe agha ahụ kwụsịrị n'ihi nkwenye nke Japan.