Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan faduwar Faransa a 1940, Corsica ta kasance wani ɓangare na kudancin "zone libre" na tsarin Vichy. Jagoran Fascist Benito Mussolini ya yi kira ga ikon Italiya, wanda magoya bayan Corsican suka goyi bayan su. A shekara ta 1942, Italiya ta mamaye Corsica tare da babbar runduna. Sojojin Jamus sun karbe shi a 1943 bayan yarjejeniyar Armistice da Italiya. Jamusawa sun fuskanci adawa daga Resistance na Faransa, suna janyewa da kuma kwashe tsibirin a watan Oktoba na 1943. Daga nan sai Corsica ta zama sansanin jirgin sama na Allied, yana tallafawa wasan kwaikwayo na Bahar Rum a 1944, da mamayewar kudancin Faransa
A watan Agusta na shekara ta 1944. Tun bayan yakin, Corsica ta bunkasa masana'antar yawon bude ido, kuma an san ta da 'yanci na' yanci, wani lokacin tashin hankali.