Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I muri i te urunga mai o te United States ki te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ko Ballentine te tuarua o nga rangatira o te kaipuke kaipuke USS "Long Island" mai i te 26 o Tihema 1941 ki te 18 o Paenga-whawha 1942. I whakatairangahia ia ki te rangatira i te 30 o Pipiri 1942. I mahi a Ballentine hei rangatira kaimahi ki te Tumuaki o te Rōpū Mahi 34.2 a Rear Admiral Ernest D. McWhorter i runga i a ia i te whakaekenga a Allied o French North Africa
i te marama o Noema o te tau 1942.