Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Churchill akanga ane chidakadaka neBalkans, iyo akaona seimwe yenzvimbo dzakanakisisa dzokubatira. Musoro unodzokororwa we "Mutemo weMediterranean" wake waive chirongwa chake cheMubatanidzwa kuti vabude pamhenderekedzo yeAdriatic yeYugoslavia uye vafambire mberi kuburikidza neLjubljana Gap muAlps kuti vasvike kuAustria kuitira kuti vatore post-hondo kuEastern Europe. Kuparara kwenzvimbo yeGermany muBalkans kwakakurudzira kufarira kwaChurchill zvakare muzvirongwa zvake zveLjubljana Gap, asi kumhara muDalmatia kwaizoda kutora kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kweItaly kutanga. Musi wa 25 Nyamavhuvhu, mauto eBritain e8th akatanga Operation Olive, kurwisa Gothic Line kuchamhembe kweItari inotungamirwa ne1st Canadian Corps nechinangwa chekutora Pesaro neRimini, ayo aifanira kushandiswa semachiteshi ekutsigira kurwisa kweBritain kwakarongwa muYugoslavia. Kuramba kwakasimba kweGermany paGothic Line, iyo yakashandisa zvakanakisisa nzvimbo yekudzivirira yeNorth-eastern Italy iyo yakayambuka nemakomo uye 14 nzizi, yakatungamirira ku8th Army kufambira mberi zvishoma nezvishoma kupfuura zvaitarisirwa uye zvakatungamirira kune zvirongwa zveGedhi reLjubjana rakagadziriswa. Mu"Triumph and Tragedy", bhuku rake rokupedzisira re"History of the Second World War", Churchill akarwisa vaAmerica nokuda kweOperation Dragoon
, kupindirwa kweFrance yokumaodzanyemba, kwaakaramba. Sechiratidzo chekutsamwa kuti vaAmerica vaipikisa zano rake reMediterranean, Churchill akataura kuti dai chete vanhu uye zviwanikwa zvakatsaurirwa kuOperation Dragoon zvaive zvaitwa kuti zviwanikwe kune zvirongwa zvekufambira mberi kweLjubanja Gap, ipapo maAllies angadai akatora Vienna muna 1944 uye nokudaro akadzivirira Red Army kubva mukutora guta iroro muna 1945.