Kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Achishandisa ruzivo rweOperation Avalanche, Eisenhower akataura kuti kwakanga kuri "kwakakosha kuti huwandu hwose hwesimba redu rokurwisa, kubatanidza maStrategic Air Forces maviri, huve hunowanika nokuda kwokushandiswa mukati menhambo dzinokosha dzokurwiswa". Chirongwa chokupedzisira chokumhara, chakanga chakarongwa zvikurukuru naMontgomery, chaida kuti mapoka mapfumbamwe amuke munzvimbo shanu. Mapoka matatu evarwi vaibhururuka nendege aizomhara seri kwemitsetse yomuvengi kuti atore migwagwa inokosha namabhiriji. Pakutanga yakarongwa nokuda kwaMay 1944, Operation Overlord yakadzoserwa shure kwemwedzi, zvikurukuru nemhaka yokushomeka kwezvikepe zvinokwira. Nokuda kwechikonzero chimwe chetecho, Operation Dragoon
, Allied landing muSouthern France, yaizoitika muna August 1944 pane panguva imwe chete neOverlord, sezvakanga zvakarongwa pakutanga. Eisenhower akasimbirira kuti vaBritain vamupe kutonga kwakasarudzika pamusoro pemasimba ose emhepo okuyamura kumhara, kusvika pamwero wokutyisidzira kurega basa kutoti Churchill akaneta, izvo zvaakaita.