Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Maimakon dawowa nan da nan zuwa Faransa, Allies na yamma sun shirya hare-hare a cikin Gidan Yakin Yankin Yankin Bahar Rum, inda sojojin Birtaniya suka riga sun kasance. A tsakiyar shekara ta 1943 an yi nasara a yaƙin da aka yi a Arewacin Afirka. Daga nan sai Al'ummai suka fara mamaye Sicily
a watan Yulin 1943 kuma daga bisani ya mamaye Italiya a watan Satumba na wannan shekarar. A lokacin, sojojin Soviet sun shiga yaƙi kuma sun yi nasara sosai a Yaƙin Stalingrad. An yanke shawarar aiwatar da mamayewa a cikin shekara mai zuwa a taron Trident a Washington a watan Mayu 1943. Tsarin farko ya iyakance da yawan jiragen ruwa na jirgin ruwa, mafi yawansu sun riga sun yi aiki a cikin Rumunan da Pacific. A taron Tehran a watan Nuwamban 1943, Roosevelt da Churchill sun yi wa Stalin alkawarin cewa za su bude dogon lokaci na biyu a watan Mayu 1944.