Beginning in August 1944, Wise participated in the Allied invasion of southern France. On August 16 he earned a Bronze Star and on August 22 a second Purple Heart for a bullet wound inflicted by a sniper. He was again shot by a sniper on September 22 and given a third Purple Heart for this wound. He was removed from combat in November and formally presented with the Medal of Honor by General Alexander Patch, commander of the Seventh Army, in Épinal, France. Among the other medals earned by Wise during the war were two foreign decorations, the Italian Croce di Guerra and the French Croix de Guerre.