Whakaoti i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Akuhata 1943, i tohua a Hoover hei Kaihauturu, Air-based Air, Central Pacific, a i noho tonu ia ki taua whakahau tae noa ki te marama o Tihema o taua tau, i te wa i whakahoutia ai tana whakahau ki te Kaihauturu, Aircraft, Central Pacific, ka tae ki te Kaihauturu, Central Pacific Forward Area. I mahi ia i tenei kaha i raro i te Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz i te wa o Tarawa, Kwajalein me
Ko Eniwetok i ngā Moutere o Gilbert me Marshall me Saipan, ko Guam i ngā Moutere o Mariana me Palau. Hoover whakaritea te rohe o tona whakahau mo te tautoko tino whai hua o ngā mahi kaipuke heke mai, me te arahina tona rōpū patu whenua-e hāngai ana kaha hohonu ki te rohe hoariri, te patu patu me te strafing paruru whakamataku o te hoariri i roto i ngā mahi whakaeke maia e materially ngohengohe ngā whāinga mo te ope whakaeke amphibious ahu whakamua i raro i te taupoki o tona rapu me te manureva rererangi. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia tana Tohu Ratonga Tohu Tuarua mo tana mahi i enei kaupapa.