Whakaotihia te rerenga kōrero e whai ake nei: I te tau 1941, e toru marama i mua o Pearl Harbor, ka whakahokia mai a Taylor e te Tumuaki George C. Marshall ki te mahi, ā, ka whakanekehia ia ki te rangatira. I tohua ia hei kaiāwhina kaiwhakahaere o Army Public Relations. I te tau 1942 i haere ia ki tawahi me te Ope Taua Tuarima a George Patton, i reira i uru kaha ai ia ki nga taunga o Operation Torch e tata ana ki Casablanca, a ka haere tonu me nga ope matua i roto i nga whakaekenga o Sicily, Itari, me
Te tonga o Wīwī. I tenei wa i whakatairangahia ia ki te Brigadier General.