Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakatairangahia a Spragins ki te taumata whetu e rua o te rangatira nui i te tau 1943 a ka tohua hei rangatira mo te 71st Infantry Division. 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 te wā o te whawhai i
France me Tiamana hei waahanga o te US Seventh Army, i whakahaua e tana hoa akomanga 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.