Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakatairangahia a Spragins ki te tūnga whetū-rua o te hōia hōia i te tau 1943 ā, i whakawhiwhia ki te rangatira o te Rōpū 71 o te Rōpū. I tirotiro ia i te whakahaere tuatahi me te whakangungu o te Rōpū 71, a ka whai muri ia ia Major General Eugene M. Landrum kia taea ai e ia te whakahaere i te 44th Infantry Division i te marama o Akuhata 1944. I ārahi ia i te Rōpū 44 i ngā pakanga i Wīwī me Tiamana
hei wāhanga o te U.S. Seventh Army, i whakahaeretia e tana hoa akomanga o West Point, Lieutenant General Alexander Patch. I te marama o Tihema 1944 ka hoki ia ki te United States mo nga take hauora, a ka whai mana a William F. Dean.