Lewis, WA where he commanded a rifle company, served as S-3 to the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, S-3, 10th Aviation Battalion, and interim aide-de-camp to the 9th Division Commanding General.

Mann trained in Camp Walters, Texas, and became a rifleman, assigned to Company L, 60th Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. In the fall of 1942, he and his unit shipped out from Norfolk, Virginia and ...