Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I arahi a Eddy i te 9th Division i nga waahanga tuatahi o te Operation Overlord, te ingoa waehere mo te Pakanga o Normandy, i tae ki Utah Beach e wha nga ra i muri i te ra D-Day i te Hune 6, 1944. Mo tana mahi ki te hopu i te tauranga French o Cherbourg, i whakawhiwhia a Eddy ki te Whaiti Ratonga Tohu. I te marama o Akuhata, ka riro ia hei Kaiwhakahaere Matua mo te XII Corps, i te nuinga o te wa ko te tihi o te Toru o nga United States Army a Lieutenant General George S. Patton. I ārahi a Eddy i te XII Corps i te
Ka anga whakamua te hunga i uru mai i Paris ki te Rhine, ā, ka whawhai i te Rāwhiti ki te Uru. I te Pakanga o te Bulge, i angitu te XII Corps a Eddy ki te pupuri i te pokohiwi ki te tonga o te Tiamana. I te Paenga-whawha 1945, i muri i tana whakauru ki te whakaekenga o te Hauauru o te Hauauru o Tiamana, i mua tata atu i te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i Uropi, ka hoki a Eddy ki te United States na te mate kino (te mate toto tiketike, i ora mai ia) ka whakakapihia i te rangatira o te XII Corps e te Major General Stafford LeRoy Irwin.