 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mabasa mapfupi mumapoka ehondo anoteverwa pamberi pokutanga kweHondo Yenyika II. Lieutenant Nihart akabva ashanda somukuru mukuru wezvombo zvehondo ari mungarava inotakura ndege USS Saratoga CV-3, apo yakaedza pasina kubudirira kubatsira Wake Islandpakarepo pashure pePearl Harbor muna December 1941. Ikoko kwakateverwa nedzimwe nhume dzokudzidzira dzechikepe nechiuto uye dzidzo. Akadzidzisa zvose zviri zviviri U.S. Marine neuto reuto nzira dzokupinda nadzo mumvura. Kubva muna April kusvika muna June 1945, Major Nihart akashanda semukuru mukuru we1st Battalion, 1st Marines panguva yehondo yeOkinawa. Pashure paikoko, akagoverwa kumasimba ari muNorth China. 