Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yaƙin a ƙasar bai fara ba har zuwa Mayu 1940, kamar yadda Burtaniya da Faransa suka shiga cikin Yaƙin Fake tsakanin Jamus da kawancen Franco-British. Yaƙin ya ƙare tare da Yaƙin Faransa inda Jamus ta mamaye Benelux kuma daga baya Faransa, wanda ya tilasta sojojin Birtaniya su tsere daga Dunkirk. A shekara ta 1941, yaƙin ya bazu zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka da kuma Yakin Gabashin Afirka. Amurka ta shiga cikin yakin a watan Disamba na 1941 bayan harin Japan a kan Pearl Harbor. A cikin 1942, sojojin Biritaniya a ƙarƙashin Laftanar Janar Bernard Montgomery sun ci sojojin Axis na Janar Erwin Rommel a Yaƙin El Alamein na Biyu, wanda ya zama babban juyi a cikin yakin Yammacin Hamada da yakin Arewacin Afirka. Ya kawo karshen fatan Axis na mamaye Masar, da karɓar iko da Suez Canal, da samun damar zuwa filayen mai na Gabas ta Tsakiya. An ba da kyautar VC tara don aiki a cikin Yakin Yammacin Yammacin Yamma. A shekara ta 1943, an yi yaƙi a cikin wasan kwaikwayo da yawa, ciki har da Pacific, Arewacin Afirka da Kudu maso gabashin Asiya. Yaƙin Burma na Yakin Pacific ya gudana daga 1942 zuwa 1945, kuma ya ga an ba da Gicciye Victoria 29. A shekara ta 1944 da kuma mamayewar Allied na Normandy, Allies suna yin ƙasa a wurare da dama ciki har da ci gaba a yakin Burma. A Turai, harin da ba a yi nasara ba a kan Arnhem
ya ga sojoji biyar da aka ba da lambar yabo ta Victoria Cross, hudu bayan mutuwarsu. A watan Mayu 1945, Allies sun yarda da mika wuya na sojojin Jamus, wanda aka yi bikin tare da VE Day. Ayyuka bayan VE Day har sai yakin a cikin Pacific ya ƙare tare da mika wuya na Japan a kan jirgin USS "Missouri" a ranar 2 ga Satumba 1945. ya ga sojoji bakwai na Commonwealth da aka ba da VC.