Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Nokukurumidza pashure pokugadzwa kwedare guru, expeditionary yakabviswa mumusoro waro nokuda kwezvikonzero zvekuchengeteka kwekushanda. Mushure mokutarisira mushandirapamwe muTunisia,
Kupinda kweSicily nekupinda kweItaly uye zvikamu zvekutanga zveItaly Campaign, Eisenhower akasiya AFHQ ndokudzokera kuEngland mukupera kwa1943 kuzotungamira mauto akaungana kuOperation Overlord, zita rekodhi rekumhara kweAllied kuchamhembe kweFrance. Akatsiviwa paAFHQ naField Marshal Sir Henry M. Wilson. Zita raWilson rakava Supreme Commander, Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, uye mauto eAmerica akauya pasi paLt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, uyo akanga ari Mutungamiri Mukuru, ETO kubva muna May 1943. Somunhu akadaro Wilson akashandisa kudzora kwakarongwa pamusoro pemushandirapamwe muItaly. Akatsigira zvakasimba kupindirwa kweGermany kuburikidza nemupata weDanube (panzvimbo yeOperation Dragoon, zita rekodhi rekupinda kweAllied muSouthern France), asi izvi hazvina kuitika sezvo Mauto eAllied muItaly (AAI) aigara achineta kutsigira mamwe matheaters ehondo. Wilson akanga ari mutungamiriri kwegore risingasviki, kusvikira atumirwa kuWashington muna December 1944 somukuru weBritish Joint Staff Mission. Wilson akatsiviwa naField Marshal Sir Harold Alexander uyo aive Supreme Commander uye mutungamiri weAFHQ kusvika pakupera kwehondo.