Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Everett Hughes ya kasance mai mahimmanci a lokacin yakin Algeria-French Morocco
, kuma Eisenhower ya tura shi zuwa London don mamayewar Normandy mai zuwa a ranar 21 ga Fabrairu, 1944 bayan da aka ayyana Hughes a matsayin wanda ya wuce gona da iri a Arewacin Afirka. Eisenhower ya rubuta wa matarsa, Mamie, "Na yi rashin Everett, ina fata har yanzu ina da shi". Hughes ya ƙaunaci kansa ga Eisenhower don baiwarsa na samar da abubuwa masu wuya kamar abubuwan da Eisenhower ya fi so, "Director's Reserve". Matsayin aikin Hughes a lokacin mamayewar Turai shine abin da Eisenhower ya kira "idanunsa da kunnuwansa". Ya yi yawon shakatawa a bayan layin, ya ba da rahoto kan batutuwan tsaro da matsalolin da suka shafi kayan aiki, kuma ya shawarci Eisenhower kan batutuwan horo. Daga bisani an nada shi Babban Jami'in Rundunar Sojan Amurka a Turai kafin a kira shi zuwa Washington DC a watan Fabrairun 1946, a matsayin Babban Jami'in Ordnance.