Kammala wannan jumla: A watan Agustan 1944, an ba Ridgway umurnin XVIII Airborne Corps. Kwamandan Rundunar Sojan Sama na 82 ya wuce zuwa Brigadier Janar James M. Gavin, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Kwamandan Kwamandan Ridgway. Aikin farko da ya shafi Ridgway shine Operation Market Garden inda Rukunin Jirgin Sama na 101 ya sauka kusa da Eindhoven don tabbatar da Bridges tsakanin Eindhoven da Veghel a kan hanyar zuwa Arnhem. Ridgway ya sauko tare da dakarunsa kuma ya kasance a gaban ɓangaren ɓangaren yaƙe-yaƙe. Rundunar Sojan Sama ta XVIII ta taimaka wajen dakatar da turawa sojojin Jamus baya a lokacin yakin Bulge a watan Disamba. A watan Maris na shekarar 1945, tare da rundunar sojin sama ta 6 ta Burtaniya da ta 17 ta Amurka a karkashin umurnin, ya jagoranci rundunar zuwa Jamus a lokacin
Operation Varsity, ɓangaren iska na Operation Plunder, kuma an ji rauni a cikin kafada ta hanyar fashewar harsashi na Jamus a ranar 24 ga Maris, 1945. Ya jagoranci rundunar a cikin mamayewar Yammacin Allied na Jamus. A watan Yunin 1945 an daukaka shi zuwa Laftanar Janar. A ƙarshen yaƙin, Ridgway yana cikin jirgin sama da ke kan hanyar zuwa sabon aiki a fagen yaƙin Pacific, a ƙarƙashin Janar na Soja Douglas MacArthur, wanda ya yi aiki tare da shi yayin da yake kyaftin a Jami'ar Sojan Amurka a West Point.