Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Ra'ayin Churchill shi ne cewa Coward zai yi ƙarin don ƙoƙarin yaƙi ta hanyar nishadantar da sojoji da kuma gida fiye da aikin leken asiri: "Ku tafi ku raira waƙa a gare su lokacin da bindigogi ke harbi <unk> wannan aikinku ne!" Ƙwarya, ko da yake ya yi baƙin ciki, ya bi wannan shawarar. Ya yi yawon shakatawa, ya yi wasan kwaikwayo kuma ya yi waka ba tare da gajiyawa ba a Turai, Afirka, Asiya da Amurka. Ya rubuta kuma ya yi rikodin waƙoƙin da aka fi sani da taken yaƙi, gami da "London Pride" da "Kada Mu Zama Dabbobi ga Jamusawa". Gidansa na Landan ya lalace ta hanyar bama-bamai na Jamus a 1941, kuma ya dauki mazaunin wucin gadi a Savoy Hotel. A lokacin wani hari na iska a yankin kusa da Savoy ya shiga Carroll Gibbons da Judy Campbell a cikin gidan wasan kwaikwayo na gaggawa don janye hankalin baƙi da aka kama daga tsoronsu. Wani daga cikin ayyukan Coward na lokacin yaƙi, a matsayin marubuci, tauraro, mawaƙa da kuma mataimakin darakta (tare da David Lean), shine wasan kwaikwayo na fim na jirgin ruwa "In Which We Serve". Fim din ya shahara a bangarorin biyu na Atlantic, kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta girmamawa a gasar
Bikin bayar da lambar yabo ta Academy a shekarar 1943. Coward ya taka leda a matsayin kyaftin din sojan ruwa, yana mai da halayyar sa ga abokinsa Lord Louis Mountbatten. Lean ya ci gaba da jagorantar da kuma daidaitawa da fina-finai na fina-finai da yawa na Coward.