attempted to give the letter to the presiding general. The general refused to accept it, so Wilbur placed the letter on the man's desk and left. Before reaching his vehicle, he was stopped by another officer who offered to take him to Admiral Michelier. Upon arriving at the admiral's headquarters, he was turned away; Michelier refused to meet with him. Wilbur headed back to the American lines in Fedala. After arriving back at the Allied-held beachhead, Wilbur led an attack against a French artillery battery. One of the few French guns still firing in the area, the battery was targeting Allied ships off shore. Wilbur gathered four tanks and a company of infantry to assault the position. He personally accompanied the group, riding along on the lead tank, and commanded them in the successful capture of the battery. Wilbur was promoted to brigadier general effective December 1, 1942 and approved for the Medal of Honor on January 13, 1943. The medal was presented to him by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during a ceremony in Casablanca on January 22, 1943, in the midst of the Casablanca Conference. Also in attendance were General George Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and Major General Patton. It was the first time that a U.S. President conferred the Medal of Honor to an American soldier on foreign soil. Wilbur continued to serve for the remainder of the war. He succeeded Brigadier General Otto F. Lange as the assistant division commander (ADC) of the 36th Infantry Division during the first five months of the Italian campaign, he participated in the Allied landings in Salerno and the subsequent fighting through the winter of 1943-1944, before himself being replaced by Brigadier General Robert I. Stack in February 1944. He was then stationed in east Asia before retiring from the Army in 1947. Later life A strong anti-communist, Wilbur became involved in the political discourse regarding the Korean War. South Korean president Syngman Rhee had offered him an official advisory post before the war, but he declined the position. In 1950, his son, Army Lieutenant William H. Wilbur, Jr., was killed in Korea and posthumously awarded the Army's second-highest honor, the Distinguished Service Cross. Wilbur was a vocal supporter of then-Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower's plan to withdraw American troops from Korea, giving several speeches on the topic in 1952. He was also involved in