Tuhia he tohutoro mo tenei irava - I muri i tana mahi hei kaitohutohu ture mo etahi marama noa iho, na te pakarutanga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i akiaki a Wilmot ki te whakauru ki te Australian Broadcasting Corporation. I tukuna ia ki te Waenganui rawhiti i te tau 1940 ka ripoata mai i Awherika ki te Raki, Kariki me Hiria; i Tobruk ia i te whakapae o te tau 1941. I te tomokanga o Hapani ki te pakanga, ka hoki a Wilmot ki Ahitereiria, katahi ka haere ki te hipoki i te pakanga i te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. I pūrongo mai ia i Papua i te wā o te whakaekenga a Hapanihi i te tau 1942, tae atu ki te pakanga Kokoda Track
, i haere ai ia ki te rohe o mua, huri noa i Abuari me Isurava, me te kairipoata pakanga a Osmar White me te kaitango kiriata a Damien Parer. I whakaarohia e Wilmot a Sir Thomas Blamey hei kore whai mana, a i whakahe ia ki tana peia o Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell.